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Yes, inmates should not have access to any device that provides them with the ability to have unmonitored communications. However, your statement that “Smuggled phones are used to coordinate drug deals, stay connected with other gang members both inside and outside prison and commit just about...  more...

There also needs to be investigation and reform of the criminal justice system at the city and county level. In Sacramento county the powerful DA's subjective decision to prosecute someone results in conviction(either by plea bargaining or losing at trial) in approximately 99% of all cases. I...  more...

Matt, you failed to mention how the cell phones got into the prisons? How do you get a so much metal including a charger through a metal detector? And Matt how far away from the prison will the signal be taken? So most of the public can’t use a cell phone within a mile of a state prison? How...  more...

Fixing California’s Three Strikes Law to what the voters originally intended would save the state $1billion dollars. It is sad the legislature so fears looking soft on crime they have become dumb on crime. The other factor is enormous sums of money contributed to their campaigns from the prison...  more...

In response to the previous comment. MDs get into treatment and recovery just like the rest of us. They go to the same programs, use the same tools. The programs that specialize in their care are there simply to offer an early opportunity. The model of care followed by supportive monitoring with...  more...

Licensing, taxing, and regulating marijuana will put the criminal drug dealers out of business and protect our children. Regulate the marijuana business. While we’re at it, let’s implement a personal cultivation permit. Limit the number of plants, and put a fee on it to cover administrative...  more...

Licensing, taxing, and regulating marijuana will put the criminal drug dealers out of business and protect our children. Regulate the marijuana business, medical or otherwise. While we’re at it, let’s implement a personal cultivation permit. Limit the number of plants, and put a fee on it to...  more...

Keeping Cannabis illegal while tobacco and alcohol are dispensed freely is *MURDEROUSLY STUPID*.It is also the most egregious and unjust assault on human rights since the holocaust.To hell with "tepid legalizers". End the atrocity. NOW.  more...

Valid medicinal value, it’s a victimless crime, the War on Drugs WAY too costly, too many arrests for simple possession, tax it and use the money to pay for health insurance and to reduce the deficit…Need I say more?Woodstock Universe supports legalization of Marijuana.We will giveaway a...  more...

I actually agree with the author that marijuana tax revenue won't be some economic panacea for California or anywhere else. But it is a little disingenuous to say that marijuana cultivation is orders of magnitude simpler than either tobacco cultivation or alcohol production. An effective grow...  more...

release the inmate to there familyssss and save money  more...

TYC and EAHYour arguments are excellent, and most Americans now agree with us. So why do we still have this barbaric persecution?Because police, prosecutors, and politicians build their careers and empires on it. Because the alcohol and pharmaceutical industries fear safer marijuana as...  more...

TomThanks. I've been at it since 1997. We won the argument on the Internet, and now the Internet is winning the argument in the real world. Only another 911 could stop us now.  more...

AMEND THE THREE STRIKE LAW and your prisons will get rid of alot of inmates. There are alot of prisoners that haw already paid for the crimes that they are paying for again. They paid 30 years ago under a different sentencing law.  more...

What frustrates me is that the people with the power to formulate policy know nothing about cannabis. The most fundamental reason to end the failed prohibition is to take back control of the herb from the black market. Of course there are many reasons to legalize and on balance they outweigh...  more...

I have read THE SPIRIT OF THE RIVER and found it to be a wonderful book. I couldn't put it down. Congratulations!  more...

How did it get so bad? I think a reasonable correlation is the power of the employee unions such as CCPOA and the political influence of corporate prison interests both of which are totally committed to making sure that the prison system grows. The prisons are supposed to be run by the State but...  more...

It's a simple choice. It honestly doesn't matter about messages sent to children, making a 'drug free' world, saying it's addictive, 'what part of illegal don't you understand', 'That's what we need; more stoned potheads driving down the road', 'I don't want my doctor operating on me while high on...  more...

The fees that Villalobos got are more than a gdisgrace.... they must be investigated as a CRIMINAL conspiracy.Do you really think the "WORK" he did juastified such "fees" or that the "lendor" would have given a better deal had it NOT had to pay such ridiculous fees to Villalobos ?A CRIMINAL...  more...

JontomasSpot on!Your posts are the best short comments I have ever seen on this subject!Thank you  more...

yagottabekiddenme >>>"The tobbaco industry already has the system in place. Mirror that system of HEAVY regulation, HEAVY taxation and programs to stop its use. No problem"Interesting how you ignore the U.S. has made great strides in reducing tobacco use. It is a shell of its former...  more...

Focusing on those in prison does not begin to address the devastation of marijuana prohibition. 800,000 innocent Americans are made second-class citizens for life with a marijuana arrest. The permanent "criminal" brand they carry presents a huge obstacle to employment, housing, government...  more...

Legalize? No problem. The tobbaco industry already has the system in place. Mirror that system of HEAVY regulation, HEAVY taxation and programs to stop its use. No problem...toke up, Johnny.Of course, the underground growers and dealers probably have a strong legislative lobby to oppose these...  more...

If you legalize it the government controls distribution. Right now the underground of drug dealers and cartel's control it. Price and demand controls the market and the market will always be there regardless of who controls the distribution. Even prisons have a difficult time keeping drugs out...  more...

The stigma attached to marijuana scares many people who use smoking pipes to hide their use. The main problem inhibiting legalization is that people who smoke a glass pipe discriminated against and are therefore not considered serious or mature. The public needs to make its choices are known and...  more...