Prison Budget
Re “State Prison System $277 Million in the Red,” April 25: As if we needed one more reason to amend California’s three-strikes law, we now have 277 million more of them. At some point the obscene amount of money the state spends incarcerating nonviolent offenders must be addressed, and amending the law to apply to violent offenders would save the state about $800 million per year.
Kudos to the state Senate subcommittee for voting down the governor’s proposal for yet another prison. We don’t need it. We don’t want it. We do want and seriously need some balance in our justice system.
Joy Johnson
Adelanto
Get the L.A. Times Politics newsletter
Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. In your inbox three times per week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
