U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy criticized California’s overcrowded prisons and lengthy prison sentences. He said that the influence that the prison guard union had in ratifying the three-strike-law was ‘sick.’
This justice stated that the prison sentences dealt to US citizens inside America are eight times longer than sentences dealt to Europeans in Europe. There is an economic reason behind this, as there is one behind anything that a government does.
He said: “California now has 185,000 people in prison at $32,500 a year.” He then asked people to compare this figure with that of how much is spent on their child’s education in elementary schools.
