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Name: Laura Magnani on May 7, 2007Comments: I am shocked that politicians would make these back room deals, without any input from the public. I thought those days were behind us, but apparently not. Thank you for taking a stand against the expansion of a failed system.Flag
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Name: Graciela Martinez on May 7, 2007Comments: Our government seems to be taking too many liberties with our money!Flag
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Name: Jerry Jaspar on May 7, 2007Comments: How will Paris Hilton survive in prison Thank god you have a secure cell for her. Criminals like her have no business dining and drinking in public!Flag
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Name: Vickie Fouts on May 7, 2007Comments: Schools, jobs, housing, health care for all NOT more prisons!!!Flag
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Name: Marilyn Giese on May 7, 2007Comments: If it sounds like it is illegal, which it does, it probably is. Perhaps the lawmakers are just wanting to make sure they get in!Flag
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Name: Melissa Lett on May 7, 2007Comments: Reduce Prison Population not increase it. Where will the money come to pay staff and provide basic needs for prisoners in which we can't even do that now and prisoners are dying. Let out the lifer's who have served more than enough time, and are no threat to society. Let out the sick inmates we have in our Hospice Care Ward. Let them go home to their families. Where will we put these beds On the Roof tops, tent city's where it is dangerously so over crowded. When people go to prison they should be taught how to become better citizens, adding more beds will not help with rehabiliation, we need space to do this. Psychology tells us it is not psychologically healthy to treat prisoners the way we do, it actually causes more trauma. Get to the root of the problem that caused someone to commit a crme and help them become better people, not make them animals by exposing them to toxic enviorments.Flag
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Name: Jovita Harrah on May 7, 2007Comments: What a shameful plan put forward by Swartzinger, governer of California and those in our legislature who support this plan. Our children, who should be protected, educated, fed and house and given health care are being abandoned to provide more prisons to satisfy the slave trade going on in the California prison system. Then they have the nerve to call other countries on their human-rights abuse. Shame, Shame!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 7, 2007Comments: We should make a Commercial lien against the State Respresentative and the State Senator and this is the only way to stop this nonsence any other plan is just a game being played by their rules, they are out of law, they only want to keep you further poor and since they are not operating by any the Constitution, only as Debtors and Creditors in their bankruptcy. EugeneFlag
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Name: Jane Bodine on May 8, 2007Comments: My brother has been in prison for 16 years. He knows many good men that have open-ended life sentences who should be out by now because they have had exemplary time in prison. Over and over they get parole denials. Instead of building more prisons or adding more beds, let deserving people out.Flag
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Name: Douglas Bauser on May 8, 2007Comments: We should be rehabilitating inmates instead of warehousing them. California should take New York's lead and correct our failed prison system. If the percentage of inmates returning to prison were reduced, less prison beds would be needed.Flag
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Name: Sue Reams on May 8, 2007Comments: A back door deal at the taxpayers expense, with no funding for any real rehabilitation or re-entry funds. Our Legislators acted in an immoral and unethical manner, voting on a bill they never even read. Hopefully the Federal Courts will see through this back door deal and take the appropriate action. You have my aye vote for a lousy job on this deal. Hopefully the voters will remember this deal at the next election.Flag
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Name: Trisha Baker on May 8, 2007Comments: this is an outrage. No input from the taxpayers because we have already told them that we were against it, so they did it behind our back.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 9, 2007Comments: Americans have the right to petition the government for Redress of Grievance, I oppose the advancement of prisons to incarcerate innoccent prisoners, CA has the higest wrongful conviction rate and the highest rate of incarcerated prisoners of race; blacks, hispanics and Asians other than white. Ban the advancement of institutionalized oppression up with education and down with incarceration.Flag
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Name: John Germain on May 9, 2007Comments: expand a system that doesn't work sentencing is wrong, probation needs reform, prisons need to be constitutionally compliant.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 9, 2007Comments: The sentencing and parole laws need to be amended. We are simply warehousing people instead of giving them rehabilitation.Flag
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Name: Sandra Schwartz on May 10, 2007Comments: This is an appalling sequence of events. The one thing we know about the prison system is that it doesn't work - so locking up more people at the cost of billions of dollars is just throwing more good money after a bad solution. Please reconsider.Flag
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Name: Harold Warner on May 11, 2007Comments: The money would be better spent on rehab instead of just custody, which would reduce recidivism. 3 strikes is stuffing our prisons. I have an inmate I have visited over the pasrt 7 years who is presently doing 9 yrs. for stealing a bicycle. The judge could have given him 2 yrs at a live-in drug rehab facility, Guess who benefits from thatFlag
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Name: Richard Pieart on May 14, 2007Comments: Solution - Put fewer people in prison and we wouldn't have to spend the money at all. In any case how about some open government here.Flag
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Name: Aviva Tevah on May 14, 2007Comments: dont build this prison, for christ's sake. the government cannot bypass tax-payer representation like this.Flag
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Name: Heidi Strupp on May 14, 2007Comments: California policians remain addicted to punishment and unwilling to consider smarter ways to make our communities safer.Flag