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Arnold has made a decision! Criminals who serve less than three years--and did not kill or physically harm someone, should be sent to county jails, not prisons.
"Although state legislators say that state-to-county unfunded mandates are illegal, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to use an exemption in sentencing laws to force counties to take title to state law offenders.
On Wednesday, the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee took up Gov. Schwarzeneggers plan to transfer future nonviolent offenders to county jails. The governor proposed the plan in his May budget revision package as a cost-cutting solution to the states rising costs for corrections. Qualifying non-violent offenders with sentences of three years or less would be required to serve their sentence in a county jail. The counties would not be reimbursed for the first year of this program, but for the 2011-12 fiscal year the state plans to refund counties with half of the money they save."
Most counties are under court order to have less crowded jails.
Under Arnolds plan a drug dealer who gets three years in State prison will serve 3.5 MONTHS in county jail--since most counties have criminals serve 10% or less of their sentences, due to overcrowding.
What a great way to end crime in California--tell criminals you won't have to serve a long sentence. The good news? This will bring criminals from other States to California--the land of freedom for criminals.
This is yet another part of the Arnold legacy. Makes me proud.
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"Although state legislators say that state-to-county unfunded mandates are illegal, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to use an exemption in sentencing laws to force counties to take title to state law offenders.
On Wednesday, the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee took up Gov. Schwarzeneggers plan to transfer future nonviolent offenders to county jails. The governor proposed the plan in his May budget revision package as a cost-cutting solution to the states rising costs for corrections. Qualifying non-violent offenders with sentences of three years or less would be required to serve their sentence in a county jail. The counties would not be reimbursed for the first year of this program, but for the 2011-12 fiscal year the state plans to refund counties with half of the money they save."
Most counties are under court order to have less crowded jails.
Under Arnolds plan a drug dealer who gets three years in State prison will serve 3.5 MONTHS in county jail--since most counties have criminals serve 10% or less of their sentences, due to overcrowding.
What a great way to end crime in California--tell criminals you won't have to serve a long sentence. The good news? This will bring criminals from other States to California--the land of freedom for criminals.
This is yet another part of the Arnold legacy. Makes me proud.
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