by Jack Lee

Governor Schwartzeneger is considering releasing about 20,000 non-violent inmates from California prisons to relieve the overcrowding. How do you feel about this?

I was a caller on the Armstrong and Getty radio show this morning and I suggested we begin first by deporting all illegal aliens, violent and nonviolent through a treaty with the home countries of origin. Currently we spend about $40,000 per year to house inmates whereas south of the border countries spend a mere fraction of this. By paying them $20,000 a year to house their criminals who sneaked into the US we would guarantee they will serve their full sentence in their home country. This reduces our cost by 50% and makes a huge profit for the prisons in their home countries, mostly Mexico. Not only that but it reduces the gang influence and a host of other social and security risk problems in our prisons.

This is not a fix, but it is a long overdue start in the right direction and we reduce our prison population by over 17,000!