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Homeless parolees weigh on California counties
WHLT ^
| 7-3-2014
| GILLIAN FLACCUS
Posted on 07/04/2014 1:50:55 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
"The need for housing is always very high," said Sean Becker, a housing services coordinator with Abode Services in Alameda County, which has a contract to provide beds for recently released state inmates. "If people have housing, they're less likely to have mental health issues and break the law again."
That's been the case for Arthur Scott.
When Scott was released in March after serving time on his 22nd auto theft conviction, probation officials referred him to Becker's nonprofit for housing. Scott, who has never been free for more than two weeks in the past 22 years, has been living on his own for three months. He is sober, working toward a janitorial certificate and has a job parking cars at an auction lot.
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They should give him a car too so he does not have to steal another one.
To: Citizen Zed
The Feds own almost all of the land in Alaska. Just sayin’!
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posted on
07/04/2014 1:53:27 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
To: Citizen Zed
They should give him a car too so he does not have to steal another one. He parks cars at a lot? I suspect it won't be long till temptation gets the best of him.
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:09:15 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Rats and RINOs, who are destroying America, may you be screwed by the fickle finger of fate)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And over 50 percent of the lower 48!
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:12:56 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Citizen Zed
Gee no mention of "immigrant" that I could find. I thought janitor was a job no American would do . . . .
How can MSM employees report on these matters on the one hand and go along with the ruling class and their love for cheap-taxpayer-subsidized immigrant labor on the other?
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:14:55 PM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: Citizen Zed
Did it stand out to anyone else that one needs a certificate to become a janitor???
I’m all for former inmates bettering them selves and taking on respectable work. It should be easier without having to go through some dumb bureaucrat requiring a certificate for entry level work.
To: Fungi
22nd auto theft conviction?????????? What ever happened to the 3-strikes idea? This guy doesn’t need housing, he needs a brain transplant.
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:15:42 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: hal ogen
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:21:17 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Citizen Zed
Bring back the flop house!
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:22:35 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Citizen Zed
When Scott was released in March after serving time on his 22nd auto theft conviction, probation officials referred him to Becker’s nonprofit for housing. Scott, who has never been free for more than two weeks in the past 22 years, has been living on his own for three months. He is sober, working toward a janitorial certificate and has a job parking cars at an auction lot. No. Seriously?
I’ve got a great idea. Let’s place paroled DUI defendants as bar-backs. Or druggies as pharmacy technicians. Or pedos in child care. Brilliant.
We’re being governed by the brain-damaged.
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:32:39 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Rich's Undeniable Truth of the Day: Stupidity is its own punishment,)
To: Organic Panic
well, yes... they need to be able to read and and count do simple arithmetic, all the little things they never learned in what little time they spent keeping warm and victimizing other kids in school, if i had to guess, it's prolly like remedial elementary school
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:38:02 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Citizen Zed
working toward a janitorial certificateIn Texas, if you can push a broom and scrub a toilet, you don't need no stinking certificate.
What is up with the paperwork in California?
/johnny
To: RichInOC
Were being governed by the brain-damaged. Government is all they are qualified for.
/johnny
To: Citizen Zed
Scott, who has never been free for more than two weeks in the past 22 years.... In LE circles we call this 'doing life on the installment plan'.
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posted on
07/04/2014 2:51:14 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: RichInOC
Well, he does have a lot of driving experience...
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posted on
07/04/2014 3:01:08 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: Citizen Zed
“When Scott was released in March after serving time on his 22nd auto theft conviction”
This POS shouldn’t even be breathing.
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posted on
07/04/2014 3:02:02 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Bring back the flop house!Walter A. Wyckoff wrote three books on his experiences of working as an unskilled laborer in 1891-93. (He was a college prof who did it as a social experiment and because of that trek, became known as "The Father of Sociology".
Anyway, he hit Chicago in the winter of '92 and for a few weeks he had to sleep at a police station and a couple of times in flop houses. What got me about the latter is that they just strung a rope across the room and you hooked your arm over it to keep from falling down when you went to sleep standing up. Yikes!
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posted on
07/04/2014 7:30:19 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: JRandomFreeper
3. What do you get when you mix ammonia and Clorox?
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posted on
07/05/2014 1:24:15 AM PDT
by
Domangart
(Tho I walk Through the valley of Wall Mart, I fear no man.)
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