Supreme Court Orders the Release of 40,000 California Inmates

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  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    The US Supreme Court today issued an order to release up to 46,000 inmates in California's penal system. The reason is the overcrowding beyond the capacity of the prisons has caused "needless suffering and death".

    This will be good not only for the inmates, but because it will hit the Private Prison Industrial complex where it hurts, in their pocketbooks. The reasons for the overcrowding is due to Corporations maximizing their profits by stuffing far more people into their prisons than they are designed for, rather than building new facilities.

    So now there will be far fewer inmates, far less revenue for these Prison Corporations that thrive on imprisoning people, especially for victimless crimes like marijuana possession.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/sc-dc-0524-court-prisons-web-20110523,0,2337401.story
     
  2. broony

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    The day its not illegal to choose what i put into my own body when all drugs become legal will be a good day.
     
  3. scratcho

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    A friend of mine said--"keep shovin 'em in there 'till one squirts out the back-then smack him real good with a 2 by 4. Legalize all drugs and weed out the defectives". Quite a plan.
     
  4. skip

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    Too bad this won't affect Eddy Lepp as he is in a Federal Prison in California, which I assume does not have an overcrowding problem.
     
  5. RooRshack

    RooRshack On Sabbatical

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    I tried to comment there, but I don't like having my online habits watched by large companies offering "login" services......

    The comments on that page are sickening.

    The general consensus is "they broke the law, they deserve what they get".

    I gloat when people like that forget to pay their parking tickets and get what THEY deserve.
     
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    Some conditions its Illegal to house a dog in. yet the humans go willingly into a cage..
     
  7. psychedelicpiper

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    It'll be a shame if they free the real criminals.

    They should just completely free people arrested for things like weed and psychedelics. I'm sure they can easily find 46,000 prisoners for just those offenses. I mean, how else do they get overcrowding?
     
  8. psychedelicpiper

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    I know what you mean. A lot of people think it's funny seeing "stoners" getting arrested for weed. It's amusing for them. And the whole "well, you broke the law" thing. What law? The law of man or the law of God? Is the government God then?

    Don't they realize that a person's life is being COMPLETELY ruined for peacefully using a God-made plant? :(

    I've never been in jail, but I know for A FACT there is no way I'd be able to handle it at all. It sounds way too harsh and inhumane.
     
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    another 40,000 displacd workers.. :leaving: ..
     
  10. Voice of Truth

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    Ohhh booy I have to agree. It's pretty disgusting.

    You can't enforce the law by breaking the law.
    You can't condemn one man's inhumanity by being inhumane.
    You can't rehiblitate a man by putting through hell.

    I will never understand the popularity and the love the majority of the population has for police and prison states;
     
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    Thats the size of a small city! It's about time... But I don't get how a corporation could ever 'maximize' their profits. They probably only released them because public awareness of the living conditions and this being America, they couldn't get away with it.
    Some of the paranoid Alex Jones type conservatives think we will be living in an Orwellian 'prison planet' like that in FEMA camps or some other controlled living environment but this is an example of how that just wouldn't fly... at least not without a lot of brainwashing and a media block like in China.
     
  12. Scorpio Kenny

    Scorpio Kenny Church of the Good Earth - ArchBishop

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    Skip,

    46,000 inmates. My first thought is fabulous. And We are winning because we were always right to begin with. Free the Heads! Free the Freaks!

    Although my second thought, even before I saw Orison319's second comment, was great 46,000 new people out of work.

    Rightly, this should really screw up the State of California's next month unemployment figures. Also the U.S. figure.

    If you think about it there is a sad side. People mainly unskilled with a felony record in todays instant background check world trying to find an honest job in this depression. Very sad. But I'm glad that they'll be out.

    This is a wonderful day. A legal president. Hope it happens in more states. And Like you said, the fed.

    Just think, the money that we save buy not locking up stoners we can use to pay off the trillions to the Red Chinese. The nation will be out of debt!
     
  13. Scorpio Kenny

    Scorpio Kenny Church of the Good Earth - ArchBishop

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    DoubleHippos,

    I guess that you are just unaware that FEMA now has the legal right to end democracy as we know it and to declare Martial Law without the president's consent.

    We have a controlled news media block.
    Brainwashing has been societally going on for ages. now.
    And this is a controlled living environment.
     
  14. skip

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    Maximizing profits is one of the main concepts business students learn. It is what drives capitalism today. It justifies treating human beings as just another commodity to exploit. The formulas they've developed to maximize profits never take into consideration the toll on their human employees, nor the impact these decisions might have upon consumers.

    Maximizing Corporate profits is the holy grail of "success" in America. It is what allows for huge BONUSES to individual managers who reach their profit goals.

    Left out of the Maximization of Profits are:
    1. The effect upon employees of such measures as loss of health insurance, lack of sick leave, lack of vacation time, poor wages, non-unionization, lack of a say in management, etc.

    2. The effect upon consumers of shoddy manufacturing causing injury, illness or death.

    3. The effect upon the environment of poor business practices that pollute our land, air and water, that use fertile land for profit rather than food, that deplete our natural resources and send species into extinction.

    4. The effect upon our economy of their lobbying power, which puts the needs of corporations over the needs of the people, currently decimating our economy with huge bailouts, low taxes, etc.

    5. There is no "human" component in the Maximization of profits. It's all about numbers and greed.

    Once I learned these truths about business my first semester in College, I switched majors...

    The Supreme Court is releasing them because the corporations running the prisons are in violation of the law.
     
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    no commissary for you.. :p
     
  16. reb

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    the difference between those in prison and those not is...the ones 'in' got caught.

    let 'em all loose...the crooks in government are loose. the wife beater down the road is loose. the guy who cheats on his income tax is loose....and we buy sneakers that come from a sweat shop in asia, so we're murderers.

    let 'em all out. put the government in the prison in their place.

    i heard that decision on the radio and i laughed. alice in wonderland has come to life in the world.
     
  17. snowtiggernd

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    Heres an inovative thought....quit needlessly imprisoning follks....
     
  18. Logan 5

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    I used to shoot pool with some guys from the local prison. Got me to wonder how some of them ended up on the wrong side of the fence.
     
  19. skip

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    Now California says they're not going to release the inmates, but use the next two years to expand their prison system.

    See the Private Prison Industry could not stand to lose all that revenue, so they're going to build even more prisons...

    This is an about face from yesterday when they said they would release non-violent prisoners and those with less than 3 years left on their sentences.
     
  20. Voice of Truth

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    More than 1/3 of consumer electronics manufactured in the United States are fabricated in prisons.
     

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