Californias overcrowded jails

omegapoint · May 29, 2011

So if the Supreme Court would decide to release all Californias prisoners at the same time on Wall St. we could have a Pamplona style running of the bulls and bears filtered thru Dante's Divine Comedy. And it could be Pay Per View.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/24/local/la-me-court-prisons-20110524

Lucrum · May 30, 2011

And how are all of these career criminal losers going to make their way from California to Wall St.?

omegapoint · May 30, 2011

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And how are all of these career criminal losers going to make their way from California to Wall St.?

Greyhound?

Lucrum · May 30, 2011

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Greyhound?

I guess Obama and co. must be paying for the fares. That sounds about right.

omegapoint · May 30, 2011

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I guess Obama and co. must be paying for the fares. That sounds about right.

If you took up a collection to see the cuff links and tassled loafers fly do you really think you couldn't raise the funds? Heres my hundred bucks.

Lucrum · May 30, 2011

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If you took up a collection to see the cuff links and tassled loafers fly do you really think you couldn't raise the funds? Heres my hundred bucks.

Oh I'm sure you could collect some funds, some people will donate to almost anything. I have doubts you'd raise the $7.4 million needed to get Greyhound tickets for all of them though.

omegapoint · May 30, 2011

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Oh I'm sure you could collect some funds, some people will donate to almost anything. I have doubts you'd raise the $7.4 million needed to get Greyhound tickets for all of them though.

They're not releasing all of them.

Hombre · May 30, 2011

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And how are all of these career criminal losers going to make their way from California to Wall St.?

Democrats will bus them, they do it all the time ..

PocketChange · May 31, 2011

Just do the math:

California is broke.. their prisons are designed to accommodate 80K prisoners at $53K per head count. They have 165K prisoners and have no financial means to increase their prison capacity and pay the room & board.

Take the capital investment out of the equation for a moment. Every 100 prisoners costs Californians $5.3M the full lot of 165K prisoners costs 8.745B. Approx $300 per resident / $1000 per tax payer each year to house criminals.

The private companies contracted to provide these services are making a mint. Reducing the head count to 80K still means they are pissing away $4.24B in their penal system.

soldsoldsold · May 31, 2011

Quote from PocketChange:

Just do the math:

California is broke.. their prisons are designed to accommodate 80K prisoners at $53K per head count. They have 165K prisoners and have no financial means to increase their prison capacity and pay the room & board.

Take the capital investment out of the equation for a moment. Every 100 prisoners costs Californians $5.3M the full lot of 165K prisoners costs 8.745B. Approx $300 per resident / $1000 per tax payer each year to house criminals.

The private companies contracted to provide these services are making a mint. Reducing the head count to 80K still means they are pissing away $4.24B in their penal system.

Free room and board. Makes no sense how criminals get it but not kids who go to college.