Posted on 07/25/2019 1:47:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
PEARL RIVER -Less than who served nearly 40 years for killing a Pearl River girl is back behind bars.
Richard LaBarbera allegedly violated the conditions of his parole and is being held at the Erie County Jail.
LaBarbera was released from Sing Sing Prison on July 8., and as a condition of his parole, he was sent to Erie County.
His release sparked outrage from Pearl River residents who launched an effort to keep the convicted killer behind bars for life.
LaBarbera and Robert McCain were both convicted back in the 1980s of brutally murdering 16-year-old Paula Bohovesky as she walked home from her job at the Pearl River Library.
McCain was denied his parole last month. It’s currently unclear what conditions of LaBarbera's parole were violated. Officials tell News 12 he is scheduled for a hearing to address his violations.
I had a guy in my cab once when I was driving who told me about his first trip to prison for stabbing someone.
He did 5 years.
The he told me he went back to prison because he violated his parole.
He shot someone in the arm!! LOL
THAT’S NOT violating parole!!
That’s a WHOLE NEW CRIME!!
I remember laughing so hard in my head but not out loud!
Dude was BIG.
But I thought he was gonna say failed a drug test or something...
He shot someone in the arm!! LOL
THAT’S NOT violating parole!!
That’s a WHOLE NEW CRIME!!
Wow. I'll file that under "Things I never thought about before."
Pearl River is downstate, near New Jersey
Why would be a condition of his parole to send him to Buffalo/Erie County - 7 hours away?
Our justice system is disgusting. Life in America is just as cheap and disposable as any turd world sh*thole.
happens all the time.
Most people who do not work in the system never realize how/what things go on.
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It is cheaper and faster just to ‘violate’ them than charge them with a new crime. No need for a trial and the crime statistics don’t get worse.
Wow. I’ll file that under “Things I never thought about before.”
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More like: “Our (once) Republic is F*-up worse than I thought”
Parole boards should be held accountable for their liberal stupidity. They should be responsible, murderers let loose, so their is no life in prison
In NYS, murder got you 20.
Most out in less.
“Good Behavior”
Should be 4evah.
I worked with juveniles at the state level. In the case of juveniles, at the time, revoking their parole had exactly the same result as charging them with a new crime. Juveniles in my state were sentenced to Youth Centers until “they got better”. Didn’t matter what the crime. Kids who broke school windows (usually rural white kids) actually did more time than urban armed robbers. It’s just the way it was. Urban kids, black or white, had to do a lot more to get sent away than kids from small towns.
Let’s say an adult is paroled after serving 5 years of a 10-year sentence. He shoots some guy in the arm. By the time all is said and done, if you ‘violate’ him, he goes back for the rest of his original sentence. A hearing, not a trial, and away he goes. But if you charge him with a new crime, he goes to trial. We pay for both his defense and the prosecution and a jury may find him not guilty. You trade a sure thing for a maybe.
It doesn’t seem right—I understand your sentiment—but it is how things are done. Same thing with pleading guilty to a lesser charge for less time.
WOW.
They don’t call maximum security “gladiator school “ for nothing
When I was younger and knew gangsters and thought I was tough, I thought I could survive a few years in PRISON.
A few days in JAIL a few times was enough for me.
First just the horrifying feeling of the cuffs being put on is suffocating.
Then either being stuck in a small cell with potential homicidal maniacs or being sent to a HUGE jail with LOTS of potential homicidal maniacs was enough for me.
I forgot ONE IMPORTANT THING.
One can be tough, but CRAZY trumps TOUGH every time.
Things I am not capable of doing (or doing only as a last resort!) these other guys can do without blinking.
That’s BAD.
I went in to Auburn Correctional (max sec) on an MRI service call. There are things on the trailer that are on the outside and I went outside without the guard... he reminded me of two things 1) the rifle he was holding was actually a machine gun and 2) as a civilian I was MORE valuable as a hostage than 10 guards.
“There are very bad people in here, and while we do all we can to protect you, you have to help us.” I let him lead through the door going in and out.
You must ask the question is he a ‘gentleman’...
There are MANY sick animals in there (max no less!!) and being tough means NOTHING because they are clinically INSANE!!
I learned long ago that insane trumps tough most every time.
Crazy what the guard said though.
And I DID NOT know they had machine guns.
In one short stay, I saw a kid being walked around on all fours on a leash with his face swollen like a catcher’s mitt.
Don’t want to think of how often he was raped.
The weapon was a Colt M-4 short barrel tactical, I assumed it was an ordinary AR-15.
As I was working, the guard was talking to me (essentially warning me) about the savages that inhabit Max Sec. His basic tone was “you simply have no idea what levels of depravity are kept here”. That the level of amorality was beyond comprehension. He’d been a guard there for 25 years and seen things that would make you puke.
He was a strong advocate for the death penalty because when you’re doing life without parole, and in “the hole”, what more punishment can you mete out to them besides exectution.
He complained that those who say “keep them in jail for life” don’t have to guard those walls and deal with the complete disregard for any convention of civilization.
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