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Thursday, April 1, 2010

California Looks To Release All Violent Felons To Save The Cost Of Keeping Them Incarcerated.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iGbkP7pNr4yedct5oNesQlhiYxxwD9EPQ2980
AP Enterprise: Calif. freeing some violent inmates
Inmates convicted of violent crimes are among those being freed early from California jails to save money, despite lawmakers' promises that they would exclude most dangerous prisoners and sex offenders.

As part of the "catch and release" program that the State of California claims is necessary to balance the budget, the state has decided that it will be more cost effective to release violent felons rather than non-violent offenders. Like all government planning, this will serve the state in many ways. If any victims are killed or injured, then those victims won't vote against any future tax rate hikes or vote against any new taxes. Also, releasing violent felons may scare all the potential victims into voting for the next set of tax rate hikes and the next new taxes. Any deaths or injuries will serve as a reminder that if new tax rate hikes and new taxes are not approved, there are many more much more violent felons waiting for early release.

A regular win-win situation for the State of California. Who knows, after the next round of tax rate hikes and new taxes, the State of California can afford to give pay hikes to the tireless state workers who came up with this genius plan.

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