Elderly, disabled and infirm inmates currently are scattered among the state's penal institutions. The reason being, more and more police are giving-in to the temptations of huge amounts of cash from illegal drugs. They found several cases of officers' robbing drug dealers. In Indianapolis, one of two officers charged with murdering a drug dealer during a robbery admitted that they had been robbing drug dealers for four years. Ga. Even smaller communities, especially in the South and Southwest, have experienced drug-related corruption in police or sheriff's departments.
Corruption erodes public confidence in government.
Up 21,000 from 1995. In addition to the 146,500 California Department of Corrections prisoners, another 90,000 persons are incarcerated in California in everything from federal prisons and local jails to county camps and juvenile facilities. By contrast, Canadian and Provincial prisons held 33,785 on any given day in 1996, up by a mere 26 prisoners from 1995, the third straight year of non-growth. Feel free to e-mail an article of interest.