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California Dem-led committee advances bill to let killers serving life without parole request re-sentencing

A bill that would allow killers serving a life sentence without parole to possibly be re-sentenced cleared a major hurdle Friday in California's Democratic-led state Legislature.

https://news.yahoo.com/california-dem-led-committee-advances-005604380.html
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They're serious????

California has some insurmountable crime problems at the moment.
See how the Dems react to it all? Let the lifers out!! You go Dems!!

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@earl-of-trumps said
California Dem-led committee advances bill to let killers serving life without parole request re-sentencing

A bill that would allow killers serving a life sentence without parole to possibly be re-sentenced cleared a major hurdle Friday in California's Democratic-led state Legislature.

https://news.yahoo.com/california-dem-led-committee-advances-005 ...[text shortened]... crime problems at the moment.
See how the Dems react to it all? Let the lifers out!! You go Dems!!
The prisons are too full by far. What can you do?

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@earl-of-trumps said
California Dem-led committee advances bill to let killers serving life without parole request re-sentencing

A bill that would allow killers serving a life sentence without parole to possibly be re-sentenced cleared a major hurdle Friday in California's Democratic-led state Legislature.

https://news.yahoo.com/california-dem-led-committee-advances-005 ...[text shortened]... crime problems at the moment.
See how the Dems react to it all? Let the lifers out!! You go Dems!!
What’s the reasoning behind it?

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@athousandyoung said
The prisons are too full by far. What can you do?
For one, build more prisons. Because for a while, California will need them.
Next, start *enforcing* the laws. And that includes the state police helping with the organized crime/thefts.

It will take a lot to get crime back to a decent level, kits if time

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@shavixmir said
What’s the reasoning behind it?
lessen the overcrowding, I believe.

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@athousandyoung said
The prisons are too full by far. What can you do?
you're being sarcastic, right?

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This doesn't make any sense. There are so many other problems Cali Dems can focus on like finding solutions to the homelessness problem or insane housing costs, yet this is what they waste their time doing.

I'm all for reduced sentences for certain crimes like drug use. But murder? There's so much more Dems should be doing than crap like this.

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@vivify said
This doesn't make any sense. There are so many other problems Cali Dems can focus on like finding solutions to the homelessness problem or insane housing costs, yet this is what they waste their time doing.

I'm all for reduced sentences for certain crimes like drug use. But murder? There's so much more Dems should be doing than crap like this.
Yes, how many people are in jail for marijuana use? That is like locking up those who drink(which does more harm to society than marijuana use).

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@earl-of-trumps said
California Dem-led committee advances bill to let killers serving life without parole request re-sentencing

A bill that would allow killers serving a life sentence without parole to possibly be re-sentenced cleared a major hurdle Friday in California's Democratic-led state Legislature.

https://news.yahoo.com/california-dem-led-committee-advances-005 ...[text shortened]... crime problems at the moment.
See how the Dems react to it all? Let the lifers out!! You go Dems!!
dems have made prisons a desirable place.

bring back work gangs, let them earn their keep

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@earl-of-trumps said
California Dem-led committee advances bill to let killers serving life without parole request re-sentencing

A bill that would allow killers serving a life sentence without parole to possibly be re-sentenced cleared a major hurdle Friday in California's Democratic-led state Legislature.

https://news.yahoo.com/california-dem-led-committee-advances-005 ...[text shortened]... crime problems at the moment.
See how the Dems react to it all? Let the lifers out!! You go Dems!!
A good idea. It would only apply to those convicted of crimes that occurred before 1990 and who have already served 25 years in prison. It would give a judge discretion to release, not automatically grant it.

Keeping octogenarians in prison makes little sense.

EDIT: Here's the proposed statute: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB94/id/2829048

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@earl-of-trumps said
For one, build more prisons. Because for a while, California will need them.
Next, start *enforcing* the laws. And that includes the state police helping with the organized crime/thefts.

It will take a lot to get crime back to a decent level, kits if time
The "libertarian" wants more prisons!

"The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (per data released in October 2021 by World Prison Brief). This number is equivalent to roughly 25% of the world's total prison population and leads to an incarceration rate of 629 people per 100,000—the highest rate in the world. The prison populations in each U.S. state vary from one to the next, with the highest rates in Louisiana and Oklahoma. Overall, the incarceration rate in the U.S. has skyrocketed in the past decade—the prison population was a mere 200,000 in 1972, less than a tenth of today's total. However, the current rate is the lowest it has been in 20 years."

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country

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@no1marauder said
The "libertarian" wants more prisons!

"The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (per data released in October 2021 by World Prison Brief). This number is equivalent to roughly 25% of the world's total prison population and leads to an incarceration rate of 629 people per 100,000—the highest ...[text shortened]... in 20 years."

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country
you fail to mention a remedy

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@mott-the-hoople said
you fail to mention a remedy
Put less people in prison? Not have such harsh sentences?

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@no1marauder said
A good idea. It would only apply to those convicted of crimes that occurred before 1990 and who have already served 25 years in prison. It would give a judge discretion to release, not automatically grant it.

Keeping octogenarians in prison makes little sense.

EDIT: Here's the proposed statute: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB94/id/2829048
letting them out to kill again is the answer?

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@mott-the-hoople said
letting them out to kill again is the answer?
How many 80 year olds "kill again"?

I'm sure you or someone will find an isolated case or two but keeping these people in prison with all the associated costs is senseless.

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