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Yes and here's an excerpt:

California will begin to reduce its prison population by about 6,500 inmates over the next year under a state law that takes effect today.

The bill was signed as part of last year's state budget package. Under it, early release credits for inmates who complete educational and vocational programs are expanded, letting more inmates leave prison earlier.

At the same time, the state will stop its monitoring of low-level offenders after their release. That is designed to reduce the number of parolees returned to prison, essentially because the state will not know if they are violating the terms of their parole.

Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate told The Associated Press last week that the law will let parole agents concentrate on more dangerous ex-convicts.

Agents will be responsible for supervising an average of 48 parolees instead of the current 70 because the law ends California's practice of automatically putting every released convict on three years of parole.

Ex-convicts deemed less dangerous or less likely to commit new crimes will not be monitored at all, although they still can be searched without a warrant.

The reduced caseload will let the state more intensively watch gang members, sex offenders and violent felons, using lessons it learned from its failure to catch Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnappers, Cate said. Parole agents have been faulted for failing to learn that paroled sex offender Phillip Garrido was hiding the young woman in his backyard for nearly 20 years.

"We're going back to the time when the parole officer not only has time to be a cop, but add that social worker factor," Cate said in a telephone interview. "We could see the recidivism rate actually go down in California, so that's the great hope."

Groups representing crime victims and the union representing Los Angeles police officers criticized the new law.

"California has decided to begin jeopardizing public safety with no perceivable financial benefit," said Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul M. Weber in a statement.

He argued that despite the short-term financial gain, an increase in crime will cost the state and victims more in the long run.

Cate acknowledged some unsupervised ex-felons will inevitably commit serious crimes after their release. But he said residents will be safer in general because parole agents will be able to concentrate on higher-risk parolees.

So in light of releasing low level offenders and turing their back on them they will create a criminal state.

Then with this news from the Governator...

Any illegal should be deported regardless if they are obeying the laws.. because they are not. I know plenty of legal immigrants who are going through all the right channels.


Their new motto:
"California: the illegal criminal state"
 
If they catch someone breaking the law in this country and deport them, they will just be back on our streets in a matter of days.

Deporting criminals makes no sense.
 
Yup definitely for the deportation of illegals breaking the law or otherwise, but especially those breaking the law. Don't put extra strain on our economy and government by housing them in better conditions in our prisons than they would have in their own country just living, or even on the streets here.
 
This could turn tragically hilarious if he follows through. Consider that people act in ways they are rewarded (follow the money).

Illegal immigrant inmates are sent to Mexico. California pays Mexico to build, staff and operate special jails for these inmates returned to Mexico.

Now, if you are a Mexican politicians or bureaucrat, doesn't it occur to you that you could make a LOT of money by sneaking all your domestic criminals north over the border? Why use Mexican funds to house criminals when you can sneak them into the US and have California send them back eventually on their dime? Either the criminals stay in the US (out of Mexican funded jails) or they are returned after committing a California crime, but now you get paid by CA to take care of them. No time off for good behavior because now they are cash cows. In fact, every "special" inmate will probably end up being charged with a chain of in-jail crimes that keeps them in CA paid for jail indefinitely.

I think I am going to set up a special jail in Mexico to help the Governator. it sounds like a money machine waiting to be turned on.
 

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