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We Are Not Alone: California may resort to early release for nonviolent offenders to stem prison overcrowding

By Gritsforbreakfast

As Texas considers whether to release parole-ready offenders early to respond to chronic prison guard understaffing, it's interesting to note that California is already two steps ahead of us with their plans to release prisoners ("Early release plan is praised, decried," Los Angeles Times, Jan. 11):Overall, [Gov. Arnold] Schwarzenegger's budget estimates that his plan would cut the prison population, now 173,000, by more than 28,000 inmates next year and nearly 35,000 by 2010. As many as 2,000 prison guards would face layoffs.For the state to reduce the inmate population enough to save, as it hopes, more than $370 million by 2009 and $750 million annually by 2010, it would have to keep 50,000 or more convicts out of prison, by some estimates...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 13, 2008 (boomark / email).