Kalifornia Releasing 6,500 Prisoners to Save Money

Kalifornia's safe streets


In another one of Governor Katzenjammer's great collaborative ideas with the Kalifornia legislature, the state has begun releasing 6,500 prisoners in order to save money.

This was first proposed last year, and the trolls up in Sacramento even had the chutzpa to tell us it was going to make our "streets safer"! Then they were talking about releasing 27,000 prisoners until the public outcry became too loud. Any way, now it is reality, albeit it a lesser number.

Funny thing is nobody has thought of cutting prison costs by reducing the vast prison bureaucracy. The reason is that the California prison guard union is one of the biggest and most powerful of the all-powerful public employee unions that really run California. There will be no layoffs, no reduced benefits, no slashing the executive positions here, folks.

Result? Over 6,000 prisoners back on our streets. All in the name of saving money-until they commit their next crime, of course. Think this move will lead to increased court time and legal expenses when these mopes are re-arrested?

But it gets even better. In recent days, Katzenjammer has floated the idea of Kalifornia building prisons in Mexico to house illegal aliens who commit crimes in the US (wink, wink, nod, nod). That one was quickly laughed out of town, so Arnold dropped the idea.

The good news is that Katzenjammer is termed out this year, and we will have a new governor. The bad news is that it will probably be good old Jerry Brown.