Comments on: State to foist inmates on counties https://calwatchdog.com/2010/05/27/new-state-to-foist-inmates-on-counties/ Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Spurwing Plover https://calwatchdog.com/2010/05/27/new-state-to-foist-inmates-on-counties/#comment-122072 Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:33:01 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=5268#comment-122072 From the same state that wants to disarm its citizens and run by Moonbeam the Stupid

]]> By: StevefromSacto https://calwatchdog.com/2010/05/27/new-state-to-foist-inmates-on-counties/#comment-1279 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:40:56 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=5268#comment-1279 I agree with all you say, including your comments about the prison guards union–which gives every other public employee union in the state a bad name–and the lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key conservatives (who I like to call the Vengence Lobby.)

]]> By: CalWatchdog https://calwatchdog.com/2010/05/27/new-state-to-foist-inmates-on-counties/#comment-1278 Fri, 28 May 2010 21:58:40 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=5268#comment-1278 FYI, StevefromSacto, spending should most definitely be cut on prisons. Laura’s article doesn’t take a position on prison spending. In my view, prison policy has been distorted by the prison guards, who mainly are interested in job protection and benefit and pay enhancement, and law-and-order conservatives who want to lock up more people — even low level drug offenders. The prison budget has grown more than many other budgets. Those are my personal opinions.
–Steven Greenhut

]]> By: StevefromSacto https://calwatchdog.com/2010/05/27/new-state-to-foist-inmates-on-counties/#comment-1277 Fri, 28 May 2010 02:11:10 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=5268#comment-1277 You read on all the other pages of CalWatchdog that we’re in a horrible budget crisis. We have to close schools and parks, deprive elderly Alzheimer’s patients of homecare, shut down our state’s only effective welfare to work program, etc., etc..

But cut spending on prisons? NEVER!

]]> By: Margo Judge https://calwatchdog.com/2010/05/27/new-state-to-foist-inmates-on-counties/#comment-1276 Thu, 27 May 2010 22:48:23 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=5268#comment-1276 This is a very interesting article I did not realize what was at stake for county officials. Good reporting!

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