No one released from prison will be eligible for unemployment. You cannot draw unemployment unless you have been working for a set number of calendar quarters. Roughly 5000 inmates currently work inside the prison system and I don't think even that qualifies them for EUD. Nor are they likely to take jobs away from those who have not been to prison, because given a choice between a felon on early release and a non-felon, almost all businesses are going to hire the non-felon.
As for the welfare problem, if the families of the prisoners are on welfare, the re-entry of the male parent into the household will cause reduction of benefits if he is working. Some of the female prisoners might qualify, but they are hardly a blip. California can solve a substantial part of this problem releasing all drug offenders in for simply possession and all other non-violent offenders with less than three years left on their term. It's been discussed repeatedly, and was even on the ballot a few elections back. 70% of the cost of the California prison system goes to the salaries and benefits to employees. Reducing the prison population to the mandated levels with likely not impact that at all, because the overcrowding is so severe. And in case you're wondering how I know this, I spent a substantial part of the last five years working with these numbers on a daily basis. On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > it's cheaper to pay someone unemployment than keep them in jail. much > cheaper. as long as they are not letting violent felons out. > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> It will be interesting to see how quickly this is enforced, how it effects >> unemployment, and how it effects welfare. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338261 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
