Consider that California’s prisons set the state back more than $10 billion per year. The proposed plan to release 27,000 prisoners would move to home detention those prisoners with a year left on their sentences, as well as the elderly and infirm, and change sentencing and parole rules for inmates who show promise of rehabilitation. But inconceivably, for some policy leaders in Sacramento, the idea of setting those people free is more unthinkable than denying 40,000 students the right to higher education.

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by Charles B. Reed, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 27th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.