On last night’s podcast, I announced that CAIVN will be running a series on in-depth articles on the California prison mess. The series kicks off on Monday with an introductory article (I’ll repost it here) discussing the multitude of issues. These includes the Supreme Court ruling that California prisons are cruel and unusual punishment because [...]
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Voters agree with Gov. Brown’s plan to transfer low-risk state inmates to local jails in order to comply with the recent Supreme Court ruling on overcrowding in state prisons. However, they don’t want to pay any extra taxes to do it. They also overwhelmingly say that the current Three Strikes law should be amended to [...] They cite inhumane, unconstitutional living conditionsdue to overcrowding as the reason why. California has known since 1996 that this decision could happen and has done precious little in the intervening fifteen years to be proactive and fix the problem before it becomes a crisis. This is standard operating procedure for California. Pretend a crisis isn’t [...] LA Times In another example of the paralysis that is the apparent natural state of California politics, the Supreme Court will probably rule in June that the state must release at least 35,000 prison inmates due to severe prison overcrowding, which results in substandard health care. Goodness, you say, surely this problem must have [...] |  | ||||
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