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Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates

To: The Gun hating Anti-2nd Amendment Libs in California.........

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tens of thousands of prison inmates.
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Badmutha said:
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.
 
xpiher said:
Non-violent offenders. Won't need luck.
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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?
 
GPS_Flex said:
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?
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Breaking and entering = violent.
 
Deuce said:
As long as its the non-violent drug use type criminals and not the murderers and rapists...
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....then the rule of law no longer applies. Lady Justice by appointment only........


I would say white collar type crimes like embezzlement, but let's face it those people don't go to prison.
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Well when they should be released in your book........why should they?
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GPS_Flex said:
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.
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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.
 
GPS_Flex said:
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.
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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.
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Interesting.

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%.
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http://www.cjcj.org/files/Marijuana_Arrests_and_Californias_Drug_War.pdf

Also interesting.

I like you GPS. You are one of the few people who makes completely unsubstantiated assumptions on this forum.
 
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Kandahar said:
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.
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yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times. sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
 
OscarB63 said:
yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times. sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
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You know that you can be sent to prison for 25 years for stealing aspirin?
 
OscarB63 said:
yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times. sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
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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.
 
OscarB63 said:
yeah, after they've been stupid enough to break the same law 3 freakin times.
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Because as we all know, smoking 3 joints is basically on par with child rape and murder. :roll:

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sorry, I have no sympathy for stupid
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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.
 
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the difference is not in our agreement/disagreement with the laws. I agree there are stupid laws. I personally think that pot should be legal.

the difference is you libs think that because the law is stupid people shouldn't go to jail for breaking it. I think that even though the law is stupid, it is still the law and people know they are breaking it, so if they get caught they should go to jail.

if you don't like the law...work to change it instead of crying like a little bitch when you get pinched for breaking it
 
Kandahar said:
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.
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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
 
Legalize drugs. Problem solved.
 
CriticalThought said:
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.
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i'd be interested in seeing the statistics on that.
 
DiAnna said:
Legalize drugs. Problem solved.
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agreed, but until they do, either don't do them or stop bitching when you go to jail.

I would love nothing better than to blaze up and get higher than a mother****er. unfortunately I know that the army frowns on that and I get random drug tests. I therefore restrain myself.
 
OscarB63 said:
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
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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?
 
xpiher said:
You know that you can be sent to prison for 25 years for stealing aspirin?
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boo ****ing hoo...just don't be a freakin thief and you've got no worries
 
OscarB63 said:
boo ****ing hoo...just don't be a freakin thief and you've got no worries
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And if you are homeless with a tooth ace thats killing you?
 
Kandahar said:
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?
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the point is: the fact that the laws are stupid doesn't excuse the fact that retards CHOOSE to break them. as I said, if you don't like the law work to change it instead of crying like a little bich when you get sent to prison for breaking it.
 
xpiher said:
And if you are homeless with a tooth ace thats killing you?
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you can go to any public hospital and by law they have to treat you regardless of your ability to pay
 
OscarB63 said:
you can go to any public hospital and by law they have to treat you regardless of your ability to pay
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And then your insurance rates go up. GG
 
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