Thousands of female inmates in California set for early release

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: LA times

Drastically redefining incarceration in California, prison officials are about to start releasing thousands of female inmates to serve the remainder of their sentences at home.

The move will help the state meet a court-imposed deadline to thin its chronically overcrowded prisons, and could be extended to male inmates in the near future, administrators said Monday.

Incarcerated mothers who were convicted of "non-serious," "non-sexual" crimes -- and who have two years or less remaining on their sentences -- could start going home as early as next week, said corrections spokeswoman Dana Toyama. The women will be required to wear ankle bracelets and report to parole officers.

The program, for which more than 4,000 female inmates could be eligible, is "a step in breaking the intergenerational cycle of incarceration," said state prisons Secretary Matthew Cate, arguing that, "family involvement is one of the biggest indicators of an inmate’s rehabilitation."


Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/09/thousands-of-female-inmates-in-california-set-for-early-release.html

[DaveJ]

1. Sure, they should release these and all other POLITICAL prisoners

If they were not violent or sex related offenders it makes me wonder if they were a danger to society at all. More likely they were a danger to the bottom line of corporate overlords, financial and drug crimes which should not send people to prison in the first place.

[exboyfil]

2. So will it include a family member who

is female, around 70 years old, and has another 10 years to go on a fraud conviction? I hope so.

[hang a left]

11. your funny nt

[jberryhill]

3. Do you know which day that will be?

I'd like to plan ahead.

[alp227]

4. remember when Lindsay Lohan got released early due to overcrowding?

I think it was because of a probation violation related to alcohol use. (Had to go check Wikipedia because I don't track celebrity stories...yes it was based on a DUI conviction.)

[No Elephants]

5. If the crimes were "non-serious," why were the sentences longer than 2 years in the first place?

[Uncle Joe]

7. Probably because the counterproductive, dysfunctional and insane

"War on Drugs" didn't require for the "crime" to be serious to get an extended stay in prison due to the political masturbatory, draconian sentencing.

[AngryAmish]

8. Amen

But the people who run the prisons like it that way. More opportunities for graft by the management, more jobs for the people who work there.

[Lance_Boyle]

6. How is this not unequal treatment under the law?

Deciding who gets released early based on plumbing? CA's male prisoners should sue the State as a class to get this corrected.

[hang a left]

9. And why do you have to be a mother??

What about elderly women?

[socialshockwave]

12. nope

Just another one of many double standards the rise of radical feminism has provided; women get away with things or get very light sentences, while men still have the books thrown at them for the same crime.

This is why I'm passionately opposed to those radical militants getting their way.

But I'm evil. 'cause, you know, not liking a group of radicals must mean I'm against women's rights. Totally.



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[hang a left]

10. They are converting one of the female prisons in California

to a men's prison. They have to do something with the over 4000 inmates housed there.