Comments on: New Way To Cut Budget: Release Prisoners

States Facing Budget Trouble Consider Releasing Inmates Early To Save Millions

[papabc]

Quetzal0666...I agree...putting people in prison for "minor" crimes is insane. But that''''s what our justice system does and this is how we have to pay for it.--------------------------------------------
Posted by tomanyt
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What is minor?
Stealing goods from 7/11 every once in awhile, breaking into your car and stripping it of the radio that cost you $1000 + installation.

Throwing a rock through your fromt window?

Killing your pet?

What is minor if it happens to you?

[tomanyt]

papabc...Why are drug addicts sent to prison instead of rehab?

[gopack443]

NO VICTIM, NO CRIME! No matter how badly some try to call "society" a victim! "Society" is more a victim of crazy laws that result in more taxes and less personal freedoms / personal responsibility without providing any befits except to cops, prison guards and there contractors!

[papabc]

This is not acceptable to release convicts from prison, esp. drug addicts, thieves and even violent criminals.

They committed the crime so punish them or shoot them but do not release.

[mpgeglia2]

We are wasting so much money because of the mislabeling of minor drug offenders and those with DWI''s as "criminals". Aside from chronic offenders, these people do not need to be imprisoned. I cannot believe that it is cheaper to send a drug addict to rehab than to prison, yet our judicial system opts for the latter. The war on drugs has been based on fear instead of rationality. Now America''s penitentiaries are over crowded and unsustainable. Not to mention that studies have proven that those who go into prison for non-violent crimes are more likely to commit violent crimes after their release. The American prison system is only making things worse and needs serious reform.

[mpgeglia2]

We are wasting so much money because of the mislabeling of minor drug offenders and those with DWI''s as "criminals". Aside from chronic offenders, these people do not need to be imprisoned. I cannot believe that it is cheaper to send a drug addict to rehab than to prison, yet our judicial system opts for the latter. The war on drugs has been based on fear instead of rationality. Now America''s penitentiaries are over crowded and unsustainable. Not to mention that studies have proven that those who go into prison for non-violent crimes are more likely to commit violent crimes after their release. The American prison system is only making things worse and needs serious reform.

[mpgeglia2]

We are wasting so much money because of the mislabeling of minor drug offenders and those with DWI''s as "criminals". Aside from chronic offenders, these people do not need to be imprisoned. I cannot believe that it is cheaper to send a drug addict to rehab than to prison, yet our judicial system opts for the latter. The war on drugs has been based on fear instead of rationality. Now America''s penitentiaries are over crowded and unsustainable. Not to mention that studies have proven that those who go into prison for non-violent crimes are more likely to commit violent crimes after their release. The American prison system is only making things worse and needs serious reform.

[tomanyt]

Quetzal0666...I agree...putting people in prison for "minor" crimes is insane. But that''s what our justice system does and this is how we have to pay for it.

[quetzal0666]

change state laws to be more liberal as in Europe,
Allow People up to a quarter ounce of legal marijuana for personal use, and legalise a few other things,
as it stands there are people encarcerated for nothing more than having a half smoked joint in their car. or a few fatties in the glove box,
i mean seriously.....

[neonink]

Fine $$$$ simple lawbreakers.

Jail the horrendous crimes.

And Stop the insanity to the repeat murderers and just end it for them.

How simple is that?

[tomanyt]

b-easy63...Drug using and selling is never victimless, no matter how much you think your copping a joint and smoking it hurts no one.
No different than alcohol, yet alcohol is legal.

[kaiyo4u]

Do you really want to bring your country back into your control? Do you really want the legislators to listen to you?
Then each and every person should file exempt on their W-2 forms and for the self employed, don''t pay your quarterlies.
When they realize we are serious, maybe the government will listen to us.

[oleander8]

"Getting that prisoner back to the community so that he can stay connected to his family, getting him back into the work force ... that''s a positive thing," she said."

What do you think that criminal is going to do when he finds there are no jobs?

[b-easy63]

n California, each inmate costs an average of $46,104 to incarcerate.

$46,104?!?!?!?!? Most people is this country live on far less than this - taking care of a family too! I think we''''ve found the issue here. Just why does it cost $46,104 a year to put someone in a cell??? How bout we outsource prisons. Send these guys to China! Now that would be a deterent.

Posted by mwhc1 at 08:35 AM : Apr 04, 2008


LOL China does not need extra people. If we sent them, they''d probably send them all back, ground up as dog food for our pets, then when we asked where they were (when the sentences were up) they would either say they got more time, or they got lost in the shuffle of over a billion people.

[b-easy63]

Now the COST of all these feel good do nothing laws has become to great for taxpayers to bear? If they do not dump prisoners on the streets then that means they will have to lay off their neices and nephews from the state dole and we can''''t have that....lol

Anarchy in the USSA? BRING IT ON =)

Posted by didnt_inhale at 08:28 AM : Apr 04, 2008


Right, then when all helllll breaks loose, they will quote some new, huge outrageous figure we all will have to pay to round them all up again (plus some more). They figure when we get desperate enough, we''ll pay whatever they say, just to feel safe.

It''s called a protection racket when criminals do it--law enforcement when they do it. Look for them to quote the necessity for even higher numbers of officers to fix the new problem they created in the first place.

[mwhc1]

In California, each inmate costs an average of $46,104 to incarcerate.

$46,104?!?!?!?!? Most people is this country live on far less than this - taking care of a family too! I think we''ve found the issue here. Just why does it cost $46,104 a year to put someone in a cell??? How bout we outsource prisons. Send these guys to China! Now that would be a deterent.

[tomanyt]

Now who can say they didn''t see this coming. This is a product of our lawmakers zero tolerance policies. What goes around comes around.

[b-easy63]

Just another insight: when my crazy relative was 9, he tried to sell his 11 year old sister to a group of men on the corner who were looking for some "hot puzzy" they said they would give him a treat if he could find some and he said he knew such a girl. Lucky for her, they were not pedophiles. They reprimanded her brother and told him they wanted a real woman not a little girl with no ****.

(He took his sister over to the men). When she turned on him for trying to pimp her out, he said "Aw...I was going to give you some of my treat..." such is the mentality of this person and though he could be entertaining, I noticed, that no matter where he went, when he came into our home or we saw him out and about, he was constantly scoping out everyone around him, sizing them up, looking for exits and watching for "game" He said, stuff is happening all around us all the time, and either you are aware and a player of the game or you will, in time be a victim of the game.

I partially credit him with making me become very observant of others and for watching my back--even in cases of relatives (like him) being nearby. He''d point out all kinds of actions and behavior, that we really did not notice before.

[bozworth4]

Be prepaired!!!!

[kmccliment]

Lets remember too. The DA may have accepted a plea from a violent crime to a non violent crime. Or the perp that has only been convicted of non violent crimes just hasnt been caught or tied to a violent crime yet.