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"California Inmate Plan Draws Ire"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article in today's Wall Street Journal.  Here are excerpts from the start of the article: California spent the past two decades making criminals pay ever-higher prices for their misdeeds, with stricter enforcement and stiffer sentences. Now, the high price of housing its inmate population has the cash-strapped state looking to dump thousands of future convicts into crowded local jails. The proposal is part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to help Sacramento overcome a $21 billion budget deficit projected for the fiscal year beginning in July. The governor wants to change sentencing guidelines so that offenders who commit such low-level felonies as auto theft or drug possession could be charged with only misdemeanors -- allowing them to serve sentences in county jails instead of state prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 13, 2009 (boomark / email).