wow! awesome!
California bans private prisons
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#12California is on a roll this week, it seems. Can someone local explain what’s going on?
The current legislative session is about to close.
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#13>Servin said that while the new law was a significant victory, there was one other thing immigrants rights groups were concerned about. When several sheriffs’ departments canceled their contracts to house Ice detainees last year, instead of freeing the detainees, Ice moved many of them to prisons in Colorado and Hawaii. Is this something that people against private prisons believe...that they just release all the pri…
Perhaps they are concerned that they'll end up in a private prison in another state.
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#14California is on a roll this week, it seems. Can someone local explain what’s going on?
Maybe if they’re ambitious they can do something about the homeless crisis next.
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#15California is on a roll this week, it seems. Can someone local explain what’s going on?
Many legislatures including ones in the united states have readings of many laws over time, and then revisit passing them all at once
Instead of sporadically throughout the year
California being the 5th largest world economy and relevance to the silicon valley population simply becomes of interest on this site
Other states arent just twiddling their thumbs but it is interesting what California legislature is passing
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#16California is on a roll this week, it seems. Can someone local explain what’s going on?
It makes you wonder what shady stuff that the public would never approve of could be flying under the radar.
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#17California is on a roll this week, it seems. Can someone local explain what’s going on?
September 13th is the last day for the legislature to pass bills in the current session.
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#18The cynic and me sees this as a win... for the prison guards union. It seems to me that whether public or private, prisons should have good, independent oversight. Pretending that the "profit motive" is the biggest issue overlooks the horrific abuses committed by guards in California's public prisons.
It's okay to solve one issue at a time.
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#19California is on a roll this week, it seems. Can someone local explain what’s going on?
signing very important things at the last minute is part of negotiations strategy.. the bills can and do change overnight
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#20Does it really remove the profit motive from incarceration? There are still thousands of vendors of various types making probably billions of dollars off of prisons, private facility or no.
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