In an effort to ease prison overcrowding, a panel of federal judges "tentatively ruled that California must release tens of thousands of inmates." (Please release Susan Atkins! Please release Susan Atkins! Please release Susan Atkins!) Though a hard number will be decided on later, the plan is to significantly reduce the numbers of inmates in two to three years. According to AP, the judges went on to say that "no other solution will improve conditions so poor that inmates die regularly of suicides or lack of proper care." Released prisoners will be of the low-risk variety. Serial killer Richard Ramirez, at right, will remain incarcerated.



Who gets preference? Which laws do we get to ignore? I need answers!
Murder is a pretty safe bet if you commit it in San Francisco county.
Release Susan Atkins? Why?
Because she was thin and pretty.
Yeah? Well now she's bald as an egg and only has one leg. Therefore, I really must insist she stay where she is.
I agree with fizzandpop ...
with a bunch of dealers back on the streets, won't there be a price war coming? Maybe customer service will improve too.
honestly? my 1st thought too.
nationwide: release the weed related "drug offenders".
wow! look! plenty of room for: bush, cheney, gonzalez, libby, rumsfeld, ashcroft, rice, powell and so on.
~~~gogo
Wow this a brilliant idea from our democratic friends in SACRAMENTO, least I did not vote for them and moved from SF long ago when the place started to stink... 99% of the bad ones will end up in big cities cause of misguided social programs. If this happens watch your stuff.... as for gogobooty REED PELOSI and KENNEDY should have first dibs on cells
I'm pretty sure Richie Ramirez has learned his lesson by now. Let's give the poor guy a break.
Perfect. Now we can feel safer on the streets.