By Just A Guy
Editors note: Just a Guy is a prisoner in a California state prison. His blogs appear Mondays and Thursdays. You can read his last post here.
It’s a travesty that California is willing to remove so much money from the state university system that CSU is not going to accept any new applications for the Spring, 2010 semester. And the governor has ordered that state workers not go to work the first three Fridays of every month and all state court houses will be closed one day a month.
Is it just me, or are the Legislature, the governor and the media all insane? What happened to early releases of nonviolent/nonserious offenders and illegal immigrants being deported? Wasn’t this supposed to be save more than $1 billion? All I have heard is that they are taking away our Friday visits and plan on feeding us only one hot meal a day and two sack lunches. I’m sure that cutting us down to two days of visiting a week is a sure sign of the rehabilitation experts represented by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
On a positive note I read yesterday that 89 technical parole violators with less than 60 days remaining on their sentences were released in an effort to help with the budget. Wahoo! Eighty-nine people. What a dent I’m sure that makes. Maybe they can use the money they just saved to send a few people to college next spring.
I keep saying it over and over – all the people that California is talking about releasing are going to get out anyway. So what difference does it really make if they get out six months early? I’m sure the kids who wanted to go to school this spring (and their parents) won’t mind if some inmates who were going to get out this year go home a little earlier.
So, who is it that really cares? The California Correctional Peace Officers Association, CDCR and the politicians who see it as political suicide to release prisoners. But the real murder is of your children’s educational opportunities.
The machine rolls on …