Schwarzenegger Wants More Prisons Built

[Judi Lynn]

Schwarzenegger Wants More Prisons Built

The governor orders the Legislature into session as he calls for increase in spending on the corrections system
By Jenifer Warren and Dan Morain, Times Staff Writers
June 27, 2006

SACRAMENTO — Saying that federal courts could seize control of California's overcrowded prisons, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday called a special legislative session on the corrections system and said the state must build more lockups soon.

Schwarzenegger urged lawmakers into action less than a week after a federal court monitor sharply rebuked him for retreating from prison reforms he had promised after taking office in 2003. Some critics called the governor's move an election-year political gimmick.

Addressing the California District Attorneys Assn. in Newport Beach, the Republican governor made no mention of the monitor's critique, which accused Schwarzenegger's top aides of allowing the state prison guards' union undue influence over prison policy and management.

In his speech, Schwarzenegger offered a four-part plan that he said would relieve overcrowding in the nation's largest prison system and would help more convicts stay crime-free once released.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons27jun27,1,4377210.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[NC_Nurse]

1. Which companies payroll is he on?

How about rolling back prison terms for non-violent offenders? Oh wait, I forgot, we don't have TIME for rational solutions!

[acmejack]

2. Ahnold is just a nazi

Apparently having the lions share of 50% of the World's prisoners doesn't satisfy him. Christ. Prisons are the only growth industry in this Country, we can incarcerate all the minorities and the rest of us can be corrections officers for minimum wage at for profit prisons. Except for the ICE agents and those who work at the Halliburton built Illegal Immigrant Detention Centers. There may be something to Alex Jone's Prison Planet after all...

[bumblebee1]

3. Where will he put all the new prisons?

Most people don't want prisons in their back yard.

[SOS]

4. Gotta lock up another 50,000 non-violent drug offenders

[tabasco]

5. Great pic.

This guy is the Governor of the State of California.


How long can this surreal nightmare go on?

[hpot]

6. Wrong priorities

They should stop locking up people for petty drug offenses and focus on improving the education system.