Denise Ducheney (D-San Diego) author of the prisoner release bill
Last week or so, I wrote about California's plan to release 6,500 prisoners to cut costs ans save money. Well, it took effect about 10 days ago, and we already have our first casualty. Meet 22-year-old Kevin Peterson.
(Kudos to the John and Ken Show (KFI am in Los Angeles) for highlighting this story.) The below link to the John and Ken Show shows a TV report from Sacramento with an interview with Mr Peterson by a Sacramento reporter.
http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/johnandkenshow/
So Kevin Peterson is released from the Sacramento County Jail and the same day tries to rape a woman. That's just ducky.
All this because California is trying to reduce its prison costs. Of course, none of that will affect the powerful prison guard union or the corrections executives.
California currently spends about $50,000 per prisoner, while Texas spends about $17,000.
This bill was authored by San Diego Democrat Denise Ducheney and signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (aka Katzenjammer). As a result, a woman in Sacramento has already been the victim of an attempted rape.
Just did a little reading on this. The guy would have gotten out 16 days later anyway. Also, his status as a violent offender was changed because he had used a broomstick, and under the new law, it has to be a "firearm or great bodily injury".
ReplyDeleteYikes! I'm pretty sure a person can do great bodily injury using only a broomstick!
Lance,
ReplyDeleteYou should have been a lawyer.
There have been discussions up
ReplyDeletehere in Oregon of starting a similar program. Personally, I
think rapists and child molesters
deserve to never see the light of
day after their first conviction.
I will just stop at that before
i lose my cool. I have witnessed the wreckage of a lifetime ruined by such acts of cruelty and perversion with friends I have had, and have.
Just a broomstick??
How do they define
'great bodily harm?'
Do they take into serious
account the mental toll
a broomstick can
do in addition to the
physical injury?
As I said; they should
never see the light of day again.
Just in case I wasn't clear, I think that he definitely should not have been released, and the thing about using a broomstick and not being a violent offender is sickening.
ReplyDeleteI think guards should be paid well and be well educated.
ReplyDeletePrisoners over 70 should be released back to their families, if they have done more than half of their time, and young felons should be required to work and the money go towards the victim.
How's that?
Ingrid,
ReplyDeleteCharles Manson is over 70.
Charles Manson personally never killed anyone, and I doubt he has the charisma left to seduce any young people to do the killing for him.
ReplyDeleteIngrid,
ReplyDeleteHitler never personally killed anyone either. Osama bin Laden probably has never personally killed anyone either.
I think that I'm going to have to side with the "keep Charlie in prison" side of this debate.
ReplyDeleteDo I believe that maybe there are some people in jail who have committed crimes that are not worthy of prison time? Sure. Charles Manson's not one of them though.