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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Supreme Court’s Scary Power Grab

The U.S. Supreme Court effectively ordered California on Monday to release 33,000 inmates over two years from an in-state prison population that numbers about 143,000.

Kent Scheidegger of the tough-on-crime Criminal Justice Legal Foundation blogged that Californians shouldn't "bother investing much in a car. It will be open season on cars, given that car thieves (nonviolent offenders) will never go to prison no matter how many times they are caught."

The 5-4 Plata decision upheld a federal three-judge panel that in 2009 found that overcrowding in California prisons is "criminogenic" -- likely to produce criminals -- and ordered state prisons to run at 137.5 percent of design capacity. The state's prisons are designed to hold 80,000 inmates. (Be it noted, 100 percent capacity means one inmate per cell.)

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5 comments:

KEEP WATCH said...

The Obama girls in action on the Supreme Court.

They are coming after your Law abiding firearms next; Hitler comes back to life!

Anonymous said...

This doesn't surprise me a all. Obama has slowly been changing our entire government. It has been his plan to do this slowly so people won't panic. Sadly enough , the 21-38 year olds don't recognize any of this , so it is working.
Civil War is the only recourse to get this country back to normal.

Anonymous said...

7:46 may be right. Who will stand for the founders American pronciples?

Anonymous said...

Let the cops just shoot these car thieves. Problem solved!

Anonymous said...

anarchy will follow which is what the Marxists wants so he can declare marshal law and freeze elections.