re: #224 pat

Somehow I doubt freeing 25,000 criminals will help California’s budget for any significant period of time. In fact it will exacerbate local budgets enormously. Why do they not instead free 25,000 social workers from the burden of employment?

Because the social workers belong to a union that would start bouncing out legislators if that happened. Citizen’s Revolts come and go, but government unions keep right existing and the politician who desires a long career does not forget that.