As news of successful budget negotiations continues to flicker into being, I’ll use one criterion to judge whether Democrats have tried their best and achieved a reasonable amount: are non-violent prisoners being released?<\/p>\n
Schwarzenegger wants to cut the private education system that his children, unlike mine, will never need to know. There is a clear tradeoff between educating students and keeping marijuana smokers and the like in jail. If this is serious, if this is a true crisis calling for the most extraordinary measures, then I want to know: are the prisoners being released?<\/p>\n
If the schools are<\/em> being cut drastically and the prisoners are not<\/em> being released, then this is not a true crisis because it didn’t call for extraordinary measures. It did not move Schwarzenegger, and conservatives in the state, out of their comfort zones. So I look for that marker: how has the prison system fared compared to the educational system? Have the prisoners been released? If not, in what sense was this a true<\/em> crisis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As news of successful budget negotiations continues to flicker into being, I’ll use one criterion to judge whether Democrats have tried their best and achieved a reasonable amount: are non-violent prisoners being released?<\/p>\n Schwarzenegger wants to cut the private education system that his children, unlike mine, will never need to know. There is a clear tradeoff between educating students and keeping marijuana smokers and the like in jail. If this is serious, if this is a true crisis calling for the most extraordinary measures, then I want to know: are the prisoners being released?<\/p>\n If the schools are<\/em> being cut drastically and the prisoners are not<\/em> being released, then this is not a true crisis because it didn’t call for extraordinary measures. It did not move Schwarzenegger, and conservatives in the state, out of their comfort zones. So I look for that marker: how has the prison system fared compared to the educational system? Have the prisoners been released? If not, in what sense was this a true<\/em> crisis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}