California Collapsing
Tens of Thousands of Criminals to Roam Streets
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN-- August 6
Jerry Brown, Calif. Attorney General: The state releases 10,000 prisoners a month. That's 120,000 inmates are going out the door every year and now the courts are saying no, you got to let out another 40,000. Well, it isn't that simple because almost as fast as you let them out, they're committing crimes and so they're coming back.
Casey Wian: State officials accused the judges of exceeding their authority, and plan to appeal to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, California has 45 days to come up with its own plan to reduce prison overcrowding which lawmakers failed to do during recent negotiations to cut the state budget deficit. The judges say it can be done without freeing dangerous criminals by releasing and locking up fewer people with minor or technical parole violations. But advocates for crime victims want none of that, pointing to the recent high profile murder of 17-year-old Lily Burke (ph). The man charged with her killing is a parolee with a long criminal background.
Belinda Harris-Titter, Parent of Murdered Children: Early release of criminals who have proven that they cannot follow the rules of society and who are released with no place to go and no way to make a living are just powder kegs, just ready to go off.
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