Wednesday, October 26, 2011

DOES 'REALIGNMENT' MEAN THAT REPEAT PROBATION VIOLATOR LINDSAY LOHAN WILL NOT BE SERVING ANY JAIL TIME?

The answer is yes. Even if the judge throws the book at this celebrity piece of trash who is now posing nude for Playboy, Lohan will be booked into the L.A. County Jail and shown out the door. Why? Because of Gov. Moonbeam’s corrections “realignment” program.

Confronted with a federal court order to reduce California’s overcrowded prison population and facing a humongous financial crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown cut a deal with the state’s Democratic lawmakers for a corrections "realignment" which sends new prison inmates to county jails and also turns the supervision of new parolees over to the counties.

Moonbeam’s realignment, which started this month, disregards the fact that California’s counties are experiencing a serious financial crisis of their own. This means that many prison inmates will just be flat out released while parolees will receive practically no supervision, and that puts the public’s safety at risk.

Realignment? That’s why they call him Moonbeam.

LOS ANGELES JAIL POPULATION WAY UP
By Bob Walsh

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
October 25, 2011

The L. A. County Jail has seen a boost of about 700 in their count since October 1. About 40% of their new intake is druggies. They anticipate that, unless they start kicking out low-level offenders with essentially zero time served they will max out on their bed space by Christmas.

Assistant Sheriff Cecil Rhambo has been quoted as saying, “We want the jail for the ‘Oh my Gods,’ not for someone who’s a drug abuser.”

While I understand the sentiment, most drug abusers support their drug activity with criminal activity. Not all, but most. It will come to no surprise to those of us who actually understand the system when we end up with literally tens of thousands of repeat property crime offenders committing more crimes with relative impunity due to lack of any place to put them when they are caught.

Isn’t realignment wonderful?

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