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Re: Sheriff Joe Arpaio is going all out this Thanksgiving, serving his prisoners a 24 cent tofu-turkey casserole, which when all the 'fixins' are included, comes to a total cost of 53 cents...

By: killthecat in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 28 Nov 13 11:34 PM | 40 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Food For Further Thought 		Msg. 58393 of 65535
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — County jails have seen a marked increase in violence since they began housing thousands of offenders who previously would have gone to state prisons.

Assault records requested by The Associated Press show that many of the 10 counties that account for 70 percent of California's total jail population have experienced a surge in the number of inmate fights and attacks on jail employees.

The spike corresponds to a law championed by Gov. Jerry Brown in which lower-level offenders are sentenced to county jails instead of state prisons. Brown sought realignment of the state's penal system in response to federal court orders.

The increase significantly outpaces the overall growth in the jail population. The combined population grew 14 percent while inmate-on-inmate assaults rose 32 percent and inmate-on-staff assaults rose 27 percent

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Re: Sheriff Joe Arpaio is going all out this Thanksgiving, serving his prisoners a 24 cent tofu-turkey casserole, which when all the 'fixins' are included, comes to a total cost of 53 cents...
By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Thu, 28 Nov 13 9:48 PM 		Msg. 58390 of 65535

Perhaps a good start would be to review exactly what laws were being violated which caused these people to be incarcerated in the first place as well as to why is it that they are still in jail. I can't help but think that in many parts of our country, local municipalities as well a large corporations have discovered that there's lots of money to made in imprisoning a large segment of the population while getting the rest of us to pay them for doing so. If there was a law that only dully elected persons could directly oversee and be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the nations jails and prisons, I suspect that this 'problem' would become much more manageable in terms of both scale and cost.

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