25 years in Folsom Prison

[cassie]

Since US District Court Judge Fogel ordered a moratorium of capital punishment back in 2006 there is no such thing as the death penalty in California, not that there was much of one before that. Apparently it is just too cruel. So instead, for the past 35 years Californians have paid $4 billion dollars to house and care for their worst offenders.

The trouble with capital punishent is twofold. One, it costs a lot more money than life imprisonment. I'm not sure why, but it does. The second problem is that there a fair number of people on death row who are innocent. They are there because of inept counsel and/or inept investigation. Plus DA's that do not disclose information that would exonerate the accused. The great state of Texas just recently executed a man that in all probability was innocent. The guy who was the head of prisons did all he could to hobble and impede the investigation into this man's guilt or innocence. He succeeded and the prisoner was executed. Definitive evidence may well yet surface showing that he didn't do the crime of which he was convicted. Won't help him though. He's dead.

 

[Royd]

I spent 10 months in Raiford, right next to FSP, for doing a job.....I had to build two outside fire escapes on the hospital and turn one open ward floor into single lockdowns....The one good thing was, my bosses hated going down there.

PS. I was there, the day they fried Ted Bundy.