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Who doesn't?
Its part of the over all prison problem. CA is just the first.
Who doesn't?
To: The Gun hating Anti-2nd Amendment Libs in California.........
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tens of thousands of prison inmates.
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Non-violent offenders. Won't need luck.
Non-violent offenders. Won't need luck.
I don’t know about you but there are a lot of “non-violent” criminals I don’t want in my house. How about you offer to house a few of them?
As long as its the non-violent drug use type criminals and not the murderers and rapists...
I would say white collar type crimes like embezzlement, but let's face it those people don't go to prison.
Come on, locking up potheads isn’t what CA does. That dog won’t hunt.
Don’t get me wrong, the state is stupid but it is laughable to think potheads are serving hard time in CA for being potheads.
Come on, locking up potheads isn’t what CA does. That dog won’t hunt.
Don’t get me wrong, the state is stupid but it is laughable to think potheads are serving hard time in CA for being potheads.
California's 33 prisons have a total capacity of 100,000, but they hold 170,000 inmates. Many prisons in California and around the country are forced to turn old gymnasiums and classrooms into huge bunkhouses for inmates. They do this by placing hundreds of bunk beds next to one another, in these gyms, without any type of barriers to keep inmates separated. In California, the inadequate security engendered by this situation, coupled with insufficient staffing levels, have led to increased violence and a prison health system that causes one death a week. This situation has led the courts to order California to release of 27% of the current prison population, citing the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. The three-judge court considering requests by the Plata v. Schwarzenegger and Coleman v. Schwarzenegger courts found California's prisons have become criminogenic as a result of overcrowding.
Arrest rates for violent crimes, property offenses, felony drug sales, all other drugs, all felonies, all misdemeanors—that is, virtually everything else—declined (often sharply) over the last 15 years. But arrests of Californians for simple marijuana possession rocketed from 21,000 in 1990 to 61,000 in 2008—a population-adjusted rate leap of 127%.
California has a three strikes law. Possession of marijuana is (in some cases) a felony. Ergo, people get locked up for being potheads. Sometimes for years or decades.
yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times. sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times. sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times.
OscarB63 said:sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
Because as we all know, smoking 3 joints is basically on par with child rape and murder. :roll:
That doesn't surprise me. But I would think that, as a conservative, you'd at least have sympathy for the taxpayers who have to pay for it.
I think most of the time they get three separate charges at the same time. It isn't that they break the law, come back, break the law, come back, and then break the law and are thrown in prison for life. They break the law, get three felony charges, and then go to prison for life.
Legalize drugs. Problem solved.
again, not the point. you would think that after your 2nd strike you'd be smart enough to either be more careful or quit going out in public carrying weed
You know that you can be sent to prison for 25 years for stealing aspirin?
boo ****ing hoo...just don't be a freakin thief and you've got no worries
What's your point? That there are stupid people? Well of course there are. So what? Why is it a good thing for someone to spend 25 years to life in prison, on their third conviction for possession of marijuana?
Does the convict somehow benefit from living most of his life in prison? Does society somehow benefit from taking this evil potsmoker off the streets? Do the taxpayers somehow benefit from forking over $20,000 a year (or $50,000 a year in California) to pay for the incarceration?
-King Abdullah, on the merits of cutting people's hands off.boo ****ing hoo...just don't be a freakin thief and you've got no worries
And if you are homeless with a tooth ace thats killing you?
you can go to any public hospital and by law they have to treat you regardless of your ability to pay