California Dreamin! "Zo?...."

 

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In the land once characterized by The Beach Boys, the California Supreme Court recently ruled thousands of inmates convicted of nonviolent sex crimes eligible for early release!  Sex offenders have a 70% to 90% recidivism rate per all the states follow-up studies!

The ruling was issued as the High Court considered whether, or not, sex offenders should be excluded from Proposition 57 backed by the ACLU, lawyers promotion association, who sponsored a ballot measure passed in November 2016 aimed at reducing the state's prison population and increase the load on police and sheriff’s department as sex offenders have the highest recidivism rate of all criminals, other than drug users.  The measure called for inmates sentenced for nonviolent felonies to be eligible for early parole consideration and apparently rape is no longer a violent crime in California.  Perhaps this is the reason so many footprints leading out of California are from high heels.

"The initiative's language provides no indication the voters intended to allow the Corrections Department to create a wholesale exclusion from parole consideration based on an inmate's sex offense convictions when the inmate was convicted of a nonviolent felony," in the belief that “forcible rape” is not violent!  Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote the court's unanimous decision.  This document proves the insanity and/or politics of many California government officials.

"The ballot measure is not ambiguous concerning its scope regarding offenders who were previously convicted of a registerable sex offense or who are currently convicted of a registerable sex offense that the Department has itself defined as nonviolent," the ruling continued further documenting the state of mind of California officials

Former California Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown, who sponsored the measure that would eventually go on to be approved by 64% of voters, has repeatedly argued that it was never meant to cover sex offenders. Well then why didn’t it say that, Jerry?  Could the fact all the studies show convicted felons vote 90% Democrat?

Monday, the state's high court ruled the department was wrong for putting sex offenders in prison, in the first place, given the plain language of the proposition!

Now 20,000 inmates imprisoned for sex crimes classified as nonviolent offenders under California insane laws including pimping, engaging in consensual sex with a minor, and possessing child pornography will be eligible for early parole.  We would like to see these judges and liberal legislators explain their thinking to some minor female victims.

Insanely, the San Francisco Chronicle "society will be safe" published claim there are stringent safeguards to make sure inmates granted parole don't go on committing more crimes; which is impossible. They did not explain how we can expect people who have broken old laws will obey new laws other than noting:

“They are often monitored electronically 24 hours a day for years, sometimes even decades; they undergo counseling and rehabilitation programs; and they return to prison if they violate the terms of their parole.”   OK……

Corrections Department spokeswoman Dana Simas sought to ease concerns over the ruling, saying it "…does not mean sex offenders will automatically be released to the community, only that they can appear before the parole board.”  Does not sound like it to us!  You cannot make up living in California.  It is “Zo,”  “Oz” backwards.

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