Strong Majority of California Voters Say Shitcan Harsh Drug Penalties

via LA Times:

“A strong majority of California voters believe the penalty for possession of a small amount of an illegal drug for personal use should be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor, according to a poll released Monday by organizations seeking to relax drug laws.

A majority of voters also said California sends too many people to prison. And almost 75% agreed that in the midst of a budget crisis, the state should instead use the millions of dollars spent to imprison drug users on schools, healthcare and law enforcement.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/voters-marijuana-use-felony-to-misdemeanor.html

or http://urlet.com/seldom.mcdonald

Get Serious, Governor

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday that the state could save $1 billion by building and operating prisons in Mexico to house undocumented felons who are currently imprisoned in California.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/26/MNV11BND6M.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea#ixzz0djnJZCEq

Get serious, Mr. Governor.  Just think about it:  How many dollars could we save by hiring Mexican cops and firemen?  How about if we hire the Mexican army?

I know you are a smart man, not an idiot.  We are in a crisis it is time to stop spouting tired old Republican ideas.

We need to cut the prison system in half, and convert half of it to higher education.  NOW.

have a peaceful day,

Bill

Suicide or Murder? Another Death in Sacramento’s Jail

The Sacramento County Main Jail inmate found hanged in his cell on Saturday has been identified by the county coroner’s office as Anthony Savage, 27.

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/crime/archives/2009/12/sacramento-inma.html#mi_rss=Our%20Region

Company wants to build a mega-prison in San Diego

Company wants to build a mega-prison in county

By Leslie Berestein UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

March 20, 2008

The private prison company that operates a detention center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Otay Mesa is proposing to build a nearly 3,000-bed mega-prison nearby. According to county records, Nashville, Tenn.-based has applied for a permit to build a “secure detention facility” in two phases on a parcel of about 40 acres northwest of Alta and Lonestar roads. A portion of the latter road has yet to be constructed.

The proposed prison would have 2,880 beds and would employ 375 people, according to an application the company filed.

It would hold more than four times the number of people that the immigration agency now holds in San Diego. The agency, known as ICE, contracts with Corrections Corporation of America to house up to 700 detainees – individuals awaiting deportation or a decision in immigration cases – at the company’s private San Diego Correctional Facility, which sits on land leased from the county.

http://urlet.com/condition.benin

Black Prison Gulag and the Police State

Black Prison Gulag and the Police State  

The U.S. is King of the global prison hill, the result of a ferocious policy of mass Black incarceration. A new study by researchers at the Pew organization shows the U.S. is number one in numbers of prisoners per capita and sheer size of the national inmate population – many more inmates than are incarcerated in 1.2 billion population China. Seven times more Americans are locked up than during the early 1970s, when the prison explosion began, with non-whites now representing large majorities of prisoners. Mass Black incarceration is a deliberate policy of every state in the nation – a furious backlash against Black gains during the Sixties that continues unabated, disconnected from actual crime rates. Prison “reform” is a worthy goal, but the ongoing crime against African Americans as a people must be tackled head-on, by confronting the true nature of the beast.
 
Read more… 

http://urlet.com/local.refine

Critics denounce proposed medical marijuana ban for parolees

  

Story Published: Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM MST Story Updated: Mar 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM MST
By The Associated Press

HELENA – Critics at a Helena hearing denounced a proposed Department of Corrections rule, that would bar anyone on parole or probation from obtaining medical marijuana as a prescription drug, despite a state law that makes it legal.Tom Daubert is with Patients and Families United, a medical marijuana advocacy group. At yesterday’s hearing he said the proposed rule completely defies Montana’s medical marijuana law, enacted by voters in 2004.

Pam Bunke is administrator of the Adult Community Corrections Division for the Corrections Department. She defended the proposed rule, saying people on parole and probation are subject to certain restrictions because they broke the law.

The Corrections Department will decide in the coming months whether to adopt the rule.

http://urlet.com/occurrences.eleventh