A new state law provides for inmates to be released when they are sick, aged, paralyzed or otherwise no longer a threat to the public, but at the first opportunity the state Parole Board refused to release a man who's a quadriplegic. Does the Board want to scuttle the medical release program? Will elected prosecutors demand continued imprisonment because of the brutal crimes that led to convictions? Also, a new, state-of-the-art public school no students can go to. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, Saudi Arabia and the "Club of Kings."
Banner image: Mule Creek State Prison, one of California's overcrowded penal facilities. © California State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation