US Supreme Court to consider Calif prison crowding

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

(11-29) 10:29 PST Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

In a case pitting states rights against the power of the federal judiciary, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about a federal court order requiring California to release inmates from its overcrowded prisons.

At issue during Tuesday's hearing is the medical and mental health care delivered to inmates in the nation's largest state prison system.

Eighteen other states have joined Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration in urging the justices to reject the order as overreaching and arguing that it poses a threat to public safety. Attorneys general elsewhere fear they could face similar legal challenges if the decision survives.

A 2005 ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco found that an average of one inmate per week was dying in California prisons as a result of medical neglect or malfeasance. The prison health care system has been judged so poor that the federal courts have found it violates the constitutional rights of inmates.

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[IScreamSundays]

1. I just read a comment posted by someone at the article:

purplepimpernel 1:03 PM on November 29, 2010


1 - Execute ALL the prisoners on death row. They have been convicted by a jury of their peers with all the protections of the legal system. Most have been convicted of MULTIPLE violent crimes. We can't risk them getting loose and they aren't worth the price of incarcerating them.
2 - Convert ALL prisons to labor camps. All convicts should have to work for their keep, with NO exceptions. This alone will assure that once released they will either go straight or leave the state.
3 - Amend 3-strikes so that the 3rd conviction for a violent felony mandates a same-day execution. It's time to start putting down the predators who make us live in fear.
4 - Watch prison populations plummet as the criminals discover that crime does NOT pay.



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You know what to do.

[Moonbat2]

2. I am so glad your

post is first. I am sure you will be attacked as cruel and insensitive now

[l.a.fox]

3. all the fictious incarceration's to supply investor returns

to the industrial prison complex.

What type of yield is a prison R.E.I.T. these days?

We put to many good people in jail for non violent bullshit.

[Heywood J]

6. 4. Execute all non-violent offenders.

5. Execute all misdemeanor offenders.
6. Execute all felony offenders.
7. Execute all traffic offenders.
8. Execute everyone who has had contact with police.
9. Execute all those who appear suspicious, who appear to have potentially criminal thoughts, or whose presence may be construed as disruptive.





:sarcasm:

We tried that once - it didn't work too well. Besides, if the "protections of the legal system" worked so well, we wouldn't have thousands of Supreme Court cases over the last two hundred years.

[IDFbunny]

8. Freepers DeLurking

Of course it will be interesting to see the sadistic, hang-em-high freepers delurking.

[bemildred]

4. How about: "In a case pitting states rights against human rights ... "

If you cannot provide a decent prison system, you ought not be imprisoning so many citizens in it. There are many cheaper and better alternatives to locking people up, and they are very appropriate and effective in the vast majority of criminal cases.

[truthisfreedom]

5. First, let all of the non-violent pot-related offenders go.

[Merlot]

7. That should do it.