When I read the head line
“Prison inmate lawsuits cost California $200M”, I know had to
read more. This article made mad me upset, because some California
prisons have state of the art facilities. Prisoners get better health
care than the law abiding citizens that pay their taxes and mentally
ill person living on the street. I personally have a family member
that is mentally ill, who has been in and out of prison all his life.
When he gets out he says he can’t handle it. He says he likes
having three squares a day. He feels that being in prison is the best
place for him.
Governor Jerry Brown has
been challenging the federal court oversight of California's prison
system. He says it is a costly conflict of interest: The private law
firms representing inmates and the judges' own hand-picked
authorities benefit financially by keeping the cases alive. The
Associated Press collected from three state agencies, that California
taxpayers spent $182 million for inmates' attorneys and
court-appointed authorities over the past 15 years. The payments
cover a dozens of lawsuits filed over the treatment of state
prisoners, parolees and incarcerated juveniles, some of which have
been settled. The total surpasses $200 million when the states own
legal costs are added. Brown also says the complaints are expensive,
frivolous and motivated by attorneys' own financial interest. "They
don't want to go away," he said last month, standing behind a
stack of court documents. "I mean, the name of the game here is,
'Come to Sacramento and get your little piece of the pie.” Michael
Bien, the lead attorney representing the welfare of mentally ill
inmates in one of the major class-action lawsuits, is wasting more of
the state's money on a legal fight he has little hope of winning said
Brown. "He's litigating with your money and my money."
Michael Bien, of the San Francisco law firm Rosen Bien Galvan and
Grunfeld, is one of the law firms that have been paid $19 million by
the state in the inmate mental health lawsuit.
What
I don’t get is that they treat prisoner better than a law abiding
citizens that are struggling every day to get by. Their prisoners for
goodness sake, their rights should not be better. How messed up is
that. I hope Governor Jerry Brown will continue to challenge this. We
need to stop treating our prisoner like they have not done anything
wrong. I know I’m tired of my taxes being raised and having to pay
for these law suits it is utterly ridiculous.
LM
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