- Oct 11, 1999
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In a decision that could dramatically reshape California's criminal justice system, a panel of federal judges Tuesday ordered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators to find ways to cut the prison population by 40,000, or about one-quarter of all inmates.
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The CA prisons have been under the supervision of Fed Judges for some time, the waste is insane.
One of the hospitals I worked at performed surgery deemed necessary on prisoners, they each had 2 guards, one to manage the prisoner and one to look out for escape attempts.
Instead of pooling their resources, one of the wards was full of prison guards in the hall. We had ~20 prisoners and 40 guards. It was insane, they were from all over the state. The guards were paid while driving hundreds of miles and on OT much of the time. They were pulling in >$100K/year as freaking prison guards, with a killer retirement program too. The guards had netbooks, DVD players, and data/email enabled phones and just screwed around the whole time. They all had lunchboxes that were several cubic feet in size. It was a real eye opener, and made me seriously unsympathetic to the Federally managed prison system.
Instead of contracting for the services (guarding hospital prisoners) or pooling their resources, they keep doggedly to the 2:1 ratio of guards to prisoners.
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The CA prisons have been under the supervision of Fed Judges for some time, the waste is insane.
One of the hospitals I worked at performed surgery deemed necessary on prisoners, they each had 2 guards, one to manage the prisoner and one to look out for escape attempts.
Instead of pooling their resources, one of the wards was full of prison guards in the hall. We had ~20 prisoners and 40 guards. It was insane, they were from all over the state. The guards were paid while driving hundreds of miles and on OT much of the time. They were pulling in >$100K/year as freaking prison guards, with a killer retirement program too. The guards had netbooks, DVD players, and data/email enabled phones and just screwed around the whole time. They all had lunchboxes that were several cubic feet in size. It was a real eye opener, and made me seriously unsympathetic to the Federally managed prison system.
Instead of contracting for the services (guarding hospital prisoners) or pooling their resources, they keep doggedly to the 2:1 ratio of guards to prisoners.
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