DiLorenzo, I would just stop now. I can tell you know very little about California's criminal justice system, and that sloppy op-ed you found on google isn't going to make you look any more informed on the topic. It conveniently overlooks the Correction Officer union's historical influence, and how people like Kamala Harris are newcomers to the machine. California's prisons are packed like sardines, and they're only building more. Your assumption that Suge Knight's making a plea decision in anticipation of a lenient parole system is incredibly aloof as to how the state is run.

California spends more money on its prisons than most countries do, and far more than any other state does. The Correction Officers' union is among the most powerful lobbies in the state. You have to see how elected officials in California, in both parties, rewrite bills to satisfy the prison unions to truly understand how government works here. Only in recent years have elected officials even begun to take a stand against these powerful lobbies. It will take decades for the likes of Harris to reverse the direction of a state prison system that has historically been one of the more draconian prison systems in this country.