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| DATE | 2016-10-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] Hey, Ruben! Plastic bag initiatives!
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On 10/05/2016 12:33 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> So, California should ignore the Federal court orders resulting from
> Brown v. Plata? Ignore the US Supreme Court when it ordered the state
> to reduce its prison population to no more than 137.5% of the
> facilities' design capacity? That could get extremely expensive for
> both the state as a whole and state officials. The latter would
> probably start facing contempt of court citations pretty soon, prison
> time, and fines.
The court can try it but that would make it very difficult in the future
for them.
What usually happens in these cases is a nod and a shrug and a lot of
passive resistance, and further litigation ... and so on.
Anyway, build more jails. Execute more prisoners. You can't allow
decisions of justice be dictated by such a trivial statistic. If you
need more prisons, build them.
--
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that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
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