Because of Moonbeam’s realignment program, California’s prisons are now housing “real bad guys”
By Bob Walsh | PACOVILLA Corrections blog | February 16, 2015
The Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle have jointly announced a remarkable “fact”: Prisons are unpleasant places, they are just full of nasty, violent, unpleasant people, and it is all Jerry Brown’s fault.
The article asserts that, over a recent two-year period, the prisoner-on-prisoner homicide rate in the California system was about 15 per 100,000 per year, which is alleged to be more than twice the national average for such things. It is further alleged that sex offenders bear a proportionally large amount of this violence. It is almost as though people, even other prisoners, don’t like baby rapists.
A large part of the problem in California is alleged to be caused by Moonbeam’s realignment program. The prisons are now focused on housing “real bad guys” instead of pot smokers and hubcap thieves. This program has remarkably led in an increasing proportion of violent prisoners serving long prison terms. (Gee, who could possibly have foreseen that happening???)
Perhaps we should switch directions and lock up retired Sunday school teachers and accountants and let all of the dangerous prisoners out. Then the inside of the prison will be very, very safe indeed. On the streets, not so much, but that’s OK as long as prisons are safe. Problem solved!!!!!!!
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