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KW: Wow! I keep realizing that between the economic crisis bringing down the luxury culture, and Bernie Madoff having taught rich people to think more carefully about get-richer-quick schemes, things should eventually get better for the middle class, working class, and the oppressed. Everything is becoming more down-to-earth.
Now, the California budget crisis has caused California to release prisoners early! Jesus would be so happy–the camel and the needle thing, and releasing the prisoners, you know.
(excerpt from) The Los Angeles Times
State budget deal reduces prison inmates by 27,000
By Michael Rothfeld / July 21, 2009
Reporting from Sacramento — The state budget deal negotiated by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders would reduce the population of California prisons by nearly 27,000 inmates in the current fiscal year.
That would be done with a combination of new measures, including allowing some inmates to finish their sentences on home detention, creating new incentives for completion of rehabilitation programs and scaling back parole supervision for the least serious offenders…
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