Schwarzenegger Wants to Release 22,000 Criminals
by Jeff Davis
The Sacramento Bee reports: “In what may be the largest early release of inmates in U.S. history, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration is proposing to open the prison gates next year for some 22,000 low-risk offenders. According to details of a budget proposal made available to The Bee, the administration will ask the Legislature to authorize the release of certain non-serious, nonviolent, non-sex offenders who are in the final 20 months of their terms. The proposal would cut the prison population by 22,159 inmates and save the cash-strapped state an estimated $256 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1 and more than $780 million through June 30, 2010. The proposal also calls for a reduction of more than 4,000 prison jobs, most of them involving correctional officers.”
Many people were hoping Arnold Schwarzenegger would bring conservative policies and sanity to the state of California after Governor Gray Davis ran up a 38 billion dollar state deficit. In his first year, Schwarzenegger introduced four bold propositions that would have cut off union funds for Democrats and accomplished other key objectives that would have helped conservatism in the state. Unfortunately, the Union hacks screeched relentlessly running non-stop political ads attacking the governor and the new propositions, which went down to defeat as a gullible public fell for various liberal lies.
Add to this, the fact that California now has a majority non-White population. Latinos, Blacks and Asians now make up a majority of the population and tend to vote against common sense conservative policies in favor of liberal, big government, socialist policies. (more…)