August 5, 2009
Prison overcrowding crisis: Media Blames the Voters?
The dominant cultural trait of the state Capitol is procrastination, a chronic tendency to deny reality as long as possible and thus avoid the political consequences of facing it.
That's why we have a perpetual state budget crisis, why we're on the brink of a calamitous water supply shortage, why public education is in turmoil, why our highways are congested and potholed, and, lastly, why we have a prison system with twice as many inmates as it was designed to handle.
These aren't sudden, unavoidable accidents. They are conditions that voters and officeholders allowed to fester despite multiple warnings, proof of a broken political system…
LINK - SacBee.com
