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People in this country cannot do math. You cannot lock up more people than the jail can hold. You cannot make everyone serve a full sentence when the jail doesn't have room.
All of this is getting lost in the Paris Group Hate.
The New York Times is finally bringing up the subject.
I guess they got tired of libeling Lee Baca without giving him at least a token chance to explain himself.
He should just quit that job and let his replacement worry about how to satisfy a rabidly vindictive public and obey federal court orders prohibiting overcrowding at the same time.
It's time to burden some other poor sucker with that essentially hopeless task!!!