In the Bakersfield Californian, state prison psychologist Brik McDill has this op-ed.

After spending 20 years in corrections as a psychologist, I am astonished that anyone -- much less the governor -- could define any class of felons as nonviolent. The current plan to release thousands of California inmates with no or shortened parole is fatuous, if not disingenuous. It is a complete fiction to believe that any convicted felon upon release is safe for community re-entry without serious strengthened parole supervision and community-based rehabilitation.

He goes on to note that nearly everyone in prison is there after both the prosecutor and the judge made a discretionary call that they needed to go to prison. The image of the poor unfortunate inmate sent to state prison under a harsh, mandatory law just for possessing one joint is myth. On top of that, many prisoners have committed worse offenses than their offense of commitment. They either didn't get caught for the greater offense, or a greater offense was plea-bargained to a lesser one.

The only credible solution if these felons are to be released is to redirect a serious portion of money saved through the release program to parole programs throughout the state to greatly reduce the number of parolees on an agent's caseload -- as has now wisely been done -- to 40 or fewer, so that supervision is close, frequent and regular. And these parolees need to be in rehab programs and forced to wear GPS devises so that at any time they can be located for random checks. Anything short of that, we're courting disaster.

Anyone speaking such heretical truths can expect to be trashed, and, sure enough, SL&P has this post on the article, predictably calling it "fear-mongering."