Maybe you will not have a crime wave. But, if you become a victim of a prisoner given early release, will you sue Brown, the judge and government for the crime? I would. Government knows that 70% of those release will create a crime within two years of release.
“Some non-serious, non-violent convicted felons will be released from behind prison walls early to complete their sentences in community-based programs, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says Monday.
The program is at reuniting low-level offenders with their families and providing inmates with rehabilitative services within the community, CDCR says.
“Approximately two-thirds of CDCR’s female inmates are mothers whose children are either with relatives or are in foster care,” says Matthew Cate, head of the department.”
Notice the sexism-this helps “females”. They went to prison because they were convicted of a crime-these are not good people.
CA News & Views
The good news is that we still have the Second Amendment.
California to begin releasing some inmates to community programs
Central Valley Business Times, 9/12/11
• Will start with female inmates
• Four out of ten female felons technically eligible
Some non-serious, non-violent convicted felons will be released from behind prison walls early to complete their sentences in community-based programs, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says Monday.
The program is at reuniting low-level offenders with their families and providing inmates with rehabilitative services within the community, CDCR says.
“Approximately two-thirds of CDCR’s female inmates are mothers whose children are either with relatives or are in foster care,” says Matthew Cate, head of the department.
He says the new program is a step in breaking the “intergenerational cycle of incarceration, as family involvement is one of the biggest indicators of an inmate’s rehabilitation.”
Initially, the program will be offered to qualifying female inmates. Participation may be offered at a later date to male inmates, CDCR says.
Effective today, an inmate who qualifies will be permitted to serve the remainder of their sentence in a residential home, a residential substance-abuse treatment program, or a transitional-care facility that offers individualized services based on their needs.
The program permits eligible inmates to try to find jobs in the community, attend psychological counseling sessions, educational or vocational training classes, participate in life-skills or parenting training, and utilize substance-abuse treatment services.
Approximately 45 percent of California’s female inmates are potentially eligible for the program, but approval for participation in the program is dependent on a review of individual history and case factors.
CDCR says will tell both local law enforcement and victims, if any, of an inmate’s participation in the program.
These are not new services that are being offered. Felons have always had access to these services. The change her is that these prisoners will be let out early. These are criminals who are probation failures, which is why there were sentenced to prison in the first place. The County system has already failed a rehabilitating these criminals using these same programs. The only thing that is changing is that now these criminals will stay at the county level when they reoffend and believe me most of them will reoffend. These are career criminals with numerouse misdemeanor and felony convictions and who have had numerous grants of probation and been through numerous programs and failed. Until a criminal decides that he/she wants to change, there is no way to rehabilitate that person. Rehabilitation only works for those who have decided before being released that they want to change their lives and stay our of prison. So crime will not decrease and recidivism will not decrease under this new early release program. We will just continue to throw money at a problem that won’t be solved until an individual decides to change.
September 14, 2011 at 2:01 pm