Hagman opposes prison reform package
Assemblyman Curt Hagman on Thursday opposed the Democrats prison plan.
The state Senate voted on the package of prison reforms that is aimed at cutting $1.2 billion from the state budget and decreasing the number of inmates in state prisons.
"It is unfair to the law abiding public to have criminals who have not yet served their debt to society released into neighborhoods," Hagman said.
"After seeing first hand the damage these felons can cause during the Chino riot, how can it be good policy to discharge them into our communities?"
"The state needs to overhaul the prison system; how does a sentencing commission with an ex-felon as a member reduce the corrections budget?
"This is a desperate reach to get a policy approved that has never managed to get enough support to pass the legislature on its own."
Hagman is a Republican who represents the 60th District, which includes San Dimas, Diamond Bar, Walnut and Chino Hills.
Maybe if Hagman was not giving out pay raises to his political staff, the state could afford to keep people in prison.
Hagman votes to give his political staff pay increases while he is voting to cut the pay and benefits of others.
Another out of touch politician or is he listening to his out of touch Chief of Staff?