Whore Next Door: Prisoners’ Dilemma

by Siouxsie Q May 18, 2016

Although California is known as a liberal haven, it is also a state with a serious incarceration problem. In 2009, federal courts mandated that the Golden State reduce its prison population, which was the highest in the nation at the time.

From a peak of 163,000, the number of people currently in state custody has fallen to just over 127,000, with nearly 5,000 incarcerated persons housed out-of-state in Arizona and Mississippi. This puts the state in compliance with the court’s mandate to get the prison population…