keeping-the-dangerous-criminals-out-of-prison-isnt-a-winning-plan

California's actions have a logic.

All decent people want our prisons to be safe places. One could, potentially, make prisons safer by removing the dangerous criminals from the prisons and releasing them onto the streets.

Yes, the logic is there. The sense, the morality, and the justice, on the other hand, are totally absent.

Sadly, California is part of a growing trend of states that believe they are choosing freedom over punishment. Instead, they are diminishing society's freedom by abandoning justice and safety.
Of course, offering second chances to those who earn them is a good thing. Failing to penalize offenders adequately or deter them in the first place, though, is an invitation to cultural rot and mayhem.

On Saturday, with almost no public notice, California augmented early-release credits for some 76,000 felons, including violent and repeat offenders. This comes atop the state adopting no-bail policies during the pandemic while its Supreme Court forbade cash-bail systems for the indigent. The results of these leniencies in California, as they have been across the country, are rising rates of recidivism and of crime in general.