Criminal
Aug. 20, 2010
Reducing Our Prison Population
Don't let doctrinaire politicians and special interest lobbyists spread fear about releasing our inmates to reduce the prison population.
James P. Gray
ADR Services Inc.Business and commercial contracts, real estate, construction, employment, PAGA, probate, legal malpractice
19000 MacArthur Blvd #550
Irvine , CA 92612
Phone: (949) 863-9800
Fax: (949) 863-9888
Email: jimpgray@sbcglobal.net
USC Law School
James is a retired judge of the Orange County Superior Court, a private mediator and arbitrator with ADR Services Inc., the author of "Wearing the Robe: the Art and Responsibilities of Judging in Today's Courts" (Square One Press, 2009), and the 2012 Libertarian candidate for vice president, along with Gov. Gary Johnson as the candidate for president.
Most of us have heard that a federal court mandate is just around the corner requiring California to release as many as 43,000 of its approximately 160,000 inmates from its prisons. What is the reason for the mandate? Most of our prisons are housing almost double the number of people they were designed and built for, and a constitutional limit applies to the conditions that we can or should force people to live in. Imagine almost 200 prisoners with ethnic and racial rivalries triple-bunk...
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