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The state of California and it's horrible prison system needs to release 40,000 prisoners to have a healthy functioning operation as noted by a federal overseer, who is responsible for remedying the current dysfuntional mess. The voters of my state has seen it fit to pass laws that can incarcerate people for up to thirty years for stealing a piece of pizza from a standing bystander. You may say I being hyperbolic, the public and the legislature have been in frenzied paranoia to stop crime, at the expense of contemplating it's effect on the state budget and it's 80% prison recidivism rate. Our society needs to be educated on the dynamics of crime.Twenty second sound, bites on the news and political campaign ads, hardly bring any lucidity to the crime issue.
