PRISON TRANSFERS ILLEGAL

"California's 33 state prisons were designed for roughly 100,000 inmates but now hold more than 174,000, and a federal judge has given the state until June to reduce overcrowding.

Corrections officials had hoped that inmates would volunteer to transfer to other states, but only 460 have done so. Earlier this month, Corrections Secretary James Tilton said forced transfers would be next. He wanted to move up to 5,000 inmates to private prisons in Arizona, Indiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

To fight overcrowding, Schwarzenegger also has asked lawmakers to review sentencing laws and consider an $11 billion prison and jail building program."


I wonder if we can really address this issue of overcrowding without addressing the inflow of people into California.

People seem to be tired of the overcrowding of our prisons, our freeways, emergency rooms, etc., but overcrowding to some extent seems to be a natural byproduct of ignoring illegal immigration and the drugs coming from Mexico.