Free the California 52,000?

California
A panel of three federal judges is holding a trial to determine whether to free 52,000 of California's 172,000 prison inmates to alleviate overcrowding. You might be asking yourself: Who elected these guys to run California?

One of the three judges, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, determined in 2005 that California's prison health care system is so bad that it's unconstitutional. He put the system in receivership and appointed law professor Clark Kelso to oversee prison health care.

Now Kelso is demanding $8 billion to renovate the system — even though the state is spending about $14,000 on health care per inmate... [snip]

Here's the unfunny funny part: Criminal Justice Legal Foundation President Michael Rushford recently figured out that inmates live longer on the inside than on the outside, and they live longer on the inside than outsiders live. [snip]

Corrections spokesman Seth Unger explained what that difference would be:

"Releasing 50,000 inmates would be the equivalent of emptying 10 prisons onto the streets."

Pity no one seems worried what the effect on the general public's 'health' might be...

[we've a serious problem with our black-robe society; it needs be reigned in]

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