California currently spends over 1.5 billion tax dollars to jail 43,000 “3rd strike” offenders. A DOJ analysis shows that each prisoner committed well over 40 major felonies in his life of crime, prior to that 3rd strike that gets him life. So just remember, only 3 felonies actually made it to a conviction and a prison sentence and that’s what you see in the news, his rap is likely pages and pages long and filled dozens of strikes!!!
So please spare me this liberal baloney? that so many 3rd strikers are in only for a few crimes and even minor ones at that, it’s just NOT true! These guys are hardcore and 99.5% of them should never be let loose again, but that wont stop some from pointing out that 1 example out of 10,000 that might be questionable, as if its the norm.
Even at the cost of $1.5 billion, it’s far cheaper to keep these career criminals locked up than to suffer the consequences if they were set free. Speaking of economic costs, if there was ever a dire situation that calls for “out sourcing” to save money this is it. I bet somewhere in this world there is a nation that would be only too happy to hold these prisoners for life and for a good deal less than it costs us in California. Mexico was my first choice, but because of the corruption and this porous Southern border, I’m afraid we would have too many prisoners finding their way right back into America.
The bottom line here is we don’t need them and the cycle of violence these career criminals breed and all the associates costs from welfare to Medicare is more than we can handle. We ought to get them out of California and out of America; revoke their citizenship and place them in prisons overseas that can manage their keep for far less than the $35,000 a year it costs us. This would break that cycle of influence they hold over us through their friends, family members and crime partners. Can you imagine all the associated costs from a ruthless criminal that creates yet another dysfunctional family?
I think this is a great plan and we ought to at least try it. Maybe we could start with 1000 of the worst of the worst inmates. Let’s give them a one-way ticket to Sudan, Chad, China or Slovenia, anywhere else! I don’t care, so long as it’s far away from here.
I suspect that once this deportation policy is known, well, we might not have to even get to deport number 1001 before we have much improved behavior in the prison population!