Just when you thought that the politicians who run California could not do anything dumber they astound you.
Gavin Newsom, the clearly lame-brained governor of the once great state of California is now proposing to cut the budget by shrinking the state’s prison population due to coronavirus.
Via Fox News:
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to reduce the state’s prison population to help with the state’s overburdened budget during the coronavirus pandemic.
Newsom sent a revised budget to state lawmakers this week that envisioned closing two state prisons in the coming years and eventually closing all three state-run juvenile prisons.
The Democratic governor is also seeking unspecified increases to sentencing credits that allow inmates to leave prison more quickly. And he proposes to shorten parole to a maximum of two years, down from five years for felonies, and let ex-felons earn their way off supervision in just a year, or 18 months for sex offenders.
The proposals drew support from reformers. Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice Executive Director Daniel Macallair hailed the long-sought shift.
“To reduce the number of people in confinement, we need to reduce the institutions of confinement,” Macallair said.
This is a really stupid idea, and one that you would expect from a Democrat.
The state has already let a huge number of offenders...
