Originally posted in a LVRJ forum
This all starts with a derelict criminal court system. You have all the innocents behind bars who received incompetent legal representation, who are waiting for new legal facts like DNA testing and testimony recants to exonerate them. Then you have those serving sentences for non-crime crimes like drug dealing and doing some activity without a license.
Then there are the violent felons who were wrongfully convicted. They also deserve to be released. OJ comes to mind.
If we emptied the prisons of all the convicts who don't deserve to be there we could *slash* the prison budget. But Dept of Prisons is pehaps the most opaque bureaucracy in the state. A reform-minded citizen can't find any specific legal data about the prison population. What are they hiding?
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