California Ordered To Reduce Prison Population : NPR
For example, were California State legislators not completely bought off by private industry, they might consider increasing taxes on private wealth and using the increased revenue to support public institutions that are proven to create stable, safe, learning environments for children.
Instead, California State legislators are guilty not only of cutting the very programs that have proven to create stable, safe, learning environments for children, but also through deregulation and corporate incentives have invited the creation of precisely the low wage, low benefit, temporary jobs that have proven to heighten community instability, threaten neighborhood safety, and force responsible adults to spend their time away from households where they are most needed.
California’s prison population, in short, is exactly what one might expect to find given the legislation that its legislators have passed over the past thirty-five years since Proposition 13 was passed.
So let me also add a shame on California voters who continue to send these certified nut-cases to Sacramento.