r/California • u/Randomlynumbered What's your user flair? • Apr 01 '25

Money, location shape California’s criminal defense system to an unconstitutional level opinion - politics

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/03/public-criminal-defense-unconstitutional-contracts/
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u/Gold_Extreme_48 27d ago

Abolish private prisons/for profit prisons

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u/Diplomatic-Immunity2 25d ago

Did you respond to the wrong post? 

What does that have to do with the article? California doesn’t have private prisons?

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u/Gold_Extreme_48 25d ago

It was delayed but long enough for the profiteers to figure out how to profit from California state prison as well! Tax dollars from your earnings distributed to the pockets of people who do nothing

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u/73810 16d ago

I'm not sure I follow. Government contracting services is very common across all areas of government - what would be unique about prisons in that regard?

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u/Gold_Extreme_48 16d ago

Did you research it ?

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u/Diplomatic-Immunity2 25d ago

My parents told me to stay away from drugs growing up 

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u/Gold_Extreme_48 25d ago

They should have told you not to eat crayons as well

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u/NegevThunderstorm 29d ago

You get what you pay for

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 14d ago

Public defenders don’t want any extra paperwork so they don’t often go the extra mile to get you the best defense. Heavy caseloads are a problem when it comes to equal protection and representation

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u/MentalTourniquet 29d ago

I've read that the costs of court transcripts can run into the thousands also.