Once again, I stand to oppose this bill for much of the same reasons I’ve been opposed to other bills. The facts are this, again, is your record, our record for our position on the Department of Corrections and whether or not prisons should be funded. This bill does not include money to fund prisons. Does that mean we want every prisoner in the state to be let out? I certainly don’t want that to happen. I think this bill does that. We want a safe society. We want a safe state. We need to be funding Corrections.

So, Mr. President, I am voting "no" on this bill because I don’t think we should be closing our prisons.