ShahdagMountains
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Yeah, but it's not funny.
Scruffy happens to know a whole lot about this particular topic.
In 2006 the CA prison population was something like 175,000, now it's down to about 130,000 and that's only because federal judges demanded they alleviate the overcrowding. Even at 130k they're still at 140% of capacity, so they can't take anyone new - but they have to, so what they do is release the tame ones early and slough off the "almost tame" ones to rehabs. There's a lock down rehabs just miles from my house, they have 73 beds and 71 of them hold prisoners. And there's HUNDREDS of these places in the county, there's about 20 of em in a 10 mile radius from our house. And don't even start me on the youth facilities, that's where they send all the "young" gang bangers. Everyone around here knows where to go if they want to score dope at midnight with no connections. Then we have a small subset of these people that are tasked with managing other outpatients, so to speak. I personally know of one running a "shared living" house in LA, they have 14 prisoners sleeping in 3 rooms. It's par for the course for illegal gang bangers, they have weapons, drugs, the whole nine yards. They don't care, they get to out gang banging during the day, they only come back to crash. All they have to do is be there for bed check. Reality is very unlike a random Google report.
Should they build more prisons?