Overcrowding in prison? Is this the truly a problem or is California just trying to get more money?
California is screaming that there prison’s are overcrowded and they are gona have to let people out to let more in!
I was dating a guy in 2009, he was out on parole, he was working a full time job at night and when requested would travel 90 miles or so to go and meet his parole officer when he got off work. He was doing everything expected of him! He was living in an apartment with a separate address at his aunts. His Ex-wife was retaliating because he did a child welfare check (advised by his parole officer) on his daughter, because she moved his daughter into a house with a child sex abuser! She contacted his parole officer and lied, stating there was a pistol in his aunt’s house (separate mailing address). They came and searched his apartment and found nothing, then they went and searched his aunt’s house, they found 1 22 round in a box under her bed! And a broken bb gun and an Avon perfume bottle that was shaped as a pistol. His aunt has a pad lock on her bedroom door. Any time that lee was in her house it was locked! He was at work when they did the search; his parole officer decided that she was going to revoke his over the items they found at the separate address! The local police officer Williams, who knew lee was doing good and not breaking any laws, informed the parole officer, that he wasn’t going to go and pick him up at work and risk ruining millions in irrigation pumps and farmers crops. That he would pick him up the next day!
The next day officer Williams picked lee up at home sleeping arrested him and was in the process of taking him to Susanville. Officer Williams told lee that it was wrong and he was going what he was suppose to be doing and that they shouldn’t be violating him over this! Williams’s sergeant called Williams and told him to take lee back home so he did! A day or 2 later the parole officer called lee and told him that she was going to still violate him, that he needed to turn himself in! So lee called Officer Williams and made arrangements to turn himself in! Williams never came to pick up lee. After several attempts to turn him in lee gave up.
So we continued to live our lives, we got married in 2010. He was working, and being a father to a child that is not his blood! Lee has passed several back ground checks for employment, he even got pulled over for a seat belt ticket and came back clear, by and California C.H.P.!
He now has a very good job; he is the sole supporter of his family, me and my 7 yr daughter. He makes almost .00 an hour, had medical insurance in Jan. he will be getting vision and dentail insurance for the whole family. Plus he is paying both of our retirements! This job is a once in a lifetime opportunity for our family!!!!
A few weeks ago his aunt called stating that some special apprehension team is looking for lee and he has a warrant for upscounding from the law, they want to send him back to prison for 3 to 6 months for something he didn’t do! If he goes to prison he will lose his job. I will have to move, because the job is providing a house to us! I don’t have a job and I will have to relocate my kids to a different school, because there is NO work in this area! So I’ll have to go and try to get medical and food stamps at California’s expense, so I and my child will have food and medical insurance! Then I’ll have to go and try and find employment, plus pay a baby sitter on miniume wage! There aren’t many jobs in the economy right now! Mean while the state of California will spend more money to lock him up for nothing! My husband passed Federal background checks for jobs. If they send him back to prison for 3 to 6 month he most likely won’t get his job back.
He is a volunteer on the local fire and rescue, and any money he makes on calls is being denoted to the American cancer society in my mother’s name, we lost her in July of 2011.
California taking lee back to prison will do more harm than good! We need some help. I’m sure there are more people out there that have changed their life for the better and are contributing to the community that are being sent back to prison over BS! We really need to get the word out and get people that can help involved! Maybe if we get this out in the open we can get this resolved without lee losing his the best job he will ever have!
And we did try contacting the governor of California but I dont think that he really even read what we sent him
Thanks for listening, Adria and Lee
I did not read you book but your question is there really overcrowding in the CA penal system and the answer is yes ten times over.
EDIT: I received your e-mail and I did read it. Your only option is an attorney in your area and this can be stopped. Look at the Law enforcement and police leader board and #10 is John S is a California criminal defense lawyer, he will be happy to assist you and will probably represent your husband Pro Bono (free) Send him and E-mail and he will get back to you.