Jere (unregistered) wrote in #4
That's great!  Non-violent means drug posession charges.  Those people shouldn't even have been in there on the taxpayer dollar anyway.  Didn't I hear that California is broke or just about, and it costs the state and its taxpayers about 50k per inmate per year.   So that's a savings of $3,500,000 on the state and it's taxpayers anually on just those 70 prisioners. 500 prisoners would save 27 million.  And then there would be more able bodied people on the workforce to help generate more revenue.  Plus if the government would "step in" instead of sell us out (i.e. NAFTA - plant jobs went to Mexico, even allowing US based businesses to ship their jobs overseas, but we should make them maintain no less than 75% of operations in the country that the business is based out of.)  Plus have a right to privacy act, where employeres can not ask about criminal backgrounds until particular criteria has been met in addition only being able to look no more than five years back, most commonly three year check.
I think its rather interesting a prisoner costs $50k a year when the average american doesnt even make that now days. I've seen people making it off $25k  a year.

That's great!  Non-violent means drug posession charges.  Those people shouldn't even have been in there on the taxpayer dollar anyway.  Didn't I hear that California is broke or just about, and it costs the state and its taxpayers about 50k per inmate per year.   So that's a savings of $3,500,000 on the state and it's taxpayers anually on just those 70 prisioners. 500 prisoners would save 27 million.  And then there would be more able bodied people on the workforce to help generate more revenue.  Plus if the government would "step in" instead of sell us out (i.e. NAFTA - plant jobs went to Mexico, even allowing US based businesses to ship their jobs overseas, but we should make them maintain no less than 75% of operations in the country that the business is based out of.)  Plus have a right to privacy act, where employeres can not ask about criminal backgrounds until particular criteria has been met in addition only being able to look no more than five years back, most commonly three year check.

Good, imo.
No point in caging non-violent criminals. It's wasteful.

As for the guards, I bet you not a one of them was fired.