CA: A new law taking effect in 2027 will cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually to keep convicted sex offenders incarcerated longer.
The law is Assembly Bill 2727, which was introduced in the California Legislature this year after two convicted sex offenders over age 50 – but younger than 65 – became eligible for the state’s elderly parole. Under the new law, inmates with a conviction for a sexual offense have to be at least 65 years old and have served at least 25 years of their sentence, making those in their 50s ineligible for elderly parole.
According to the bill analysis for AB 2727, California’s taxpayers pay $138,000 annually to incarcerate convicted prisoners in California’s prison system. Taxpayers would pay roughly $4.13 million each year to the Department of State Hospitals to expand screenings for inmates who are being evaluated as sexually violent predators, and an additional $10.23 million to $20.46 million for treatment for those individuals, according to fiscal comments included in the legislative analysis of the bill.
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The article talks about the cost of keeping the newly state-created race, “sex offenders,” incarcerated longer, but it ignores a larger issue. State governments illegally expand their authority over people who have already completed the sentence imposed by the court. These are free citizens and are illegally compelled to remain subject to restrictions, monitoring, and re-incaration decades after the original punishment was served. In a country that prides itself on freedom, they cannot even celebrate at Fourth of July venues, to make my point. At some point, taxpayers should ask whether this is about public safety or about hatred of the new race while preserving an illegal system that never allows a sentence to truly end and robs the public blind.
Before spending another dollar, or referring to the Bill of Rights and the federal and state constitutions as toilet paper, the public should demand evidence that longer incarceration is for the original sex offense and justified by a criminal judge, not some obscure civil administrative official or some made-up law that sent them there illegally.
If a completed sentence can continue to generate restrictions, surveillance, and additional imprisonment decades later, the public should ask if they wish these rules upon themselves. That question deserves as much attention as the fiscal cost of the new law.
Some people might say it’s worth it, and the majority is those who srand to benefit from the money. I don’t like the fact that they don’t have some evaluations, before just saying nope, no parole for you.