 | Supreme Court releases 46,000 California Inmates due to overcrowdingScotty Starnes | May 23, 2011 at 2:24 PM | Tags: California, inmate release, overcrowded prison, prisons, U.S. Supreme Court | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-5iB |
Un-fucking-believable!
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ordered California on Monday to release tens of thousands of its prisoners to relieve overcrowding, saying that "needless suffering and death" had resulted from putting too many inmates into facilities that cannot hold them in decent conditions.
Yes, in the U.S., we have to make it comfortable for criminals or they are set free.
It is one of the largest prison release orders in the nation's history, and it sharply split the high court.
Justices upheld an order from a three-judge panel in California that called for releasing 38,000 to 46,000 prisoners. Since then, the state has transferred about 9,000 state inmates to county jails. As a result, the total prison population is now about 32,000 more than the capacity limit set by the panel.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking for the majority, said California's prisons had "fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements" because of overcrowding. As many as 200 prisoners may live in gymnasium, he said, and as many as 54 prisoners share a single toilet.
Where in the constitution does it say that prisons have to be comfortable. These lowlifes, more than likely, violated another person's rights. Why should they be treated better? Let them be uncomfortable in prison and maybe they won't return to their lives of crime once released.
Kennedy insisted that the state had no choice but to release more prisoners. The justices, however, agreed that California officials should be given more time to make the needed reductions.
In dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the ruling "staggering" and "absurd."
He said the high court had repeatedly overruled the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for ordering the release of individual prisoners. Now, he said, the majority were ordering the release of "46,000 happy-go-lucky felons." He added that "terrible things are sure to happen as a consequence of this outrageous order." Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with him.
Now the taxpayers will be forced to foot the bill to re-incarcerate them once these criminals are freed to feast upon the public thanks to California's pro-criminal agenda.
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