The judge is behind the times -- they're not "felons" but "justice-involved individuals", according to the Obama Administration.
They’re just ethically challenged people.
Who are we to punish them? Ethics after all depends on the situation.
Let’s not judge.
“The judge, Frederic Block of Federal District Court, said that the broad range of such collateral consequences served no “useful function other than to further punish criminal defendants after they have completed their court-imposed sentences.”
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time or accept the consequences for your actions.
Judge Block is a blockhead.
In case you’re wondering, no one is forced to commit a crime.
And people who are behind bars deserve to be there.
Well, he does make one good point at least. If you are a felon who has served their sentence and you want to go “straight”, but can’t get a legitimate job, can’t get housing, and can’t get public assistance, it’s most likely just going to discourage you from your goal and encourage you to go right back to crime.
write on the blackboard 100 times, "I will not spit on the sidewalks of New Yawk"
Unless the "charge" is changed ... you be a felon, mama.
The judge is full of **it and trying to polish himself into a bronze turd; when in truth they all know - there is simply no more goddamned room. We need more prisons, and put them in the bluest of blue citystates.
Again, women serve much less prison time then men for the same crime.
And he is right that criminal records prevent reintegration. How about we call it what it is, "DEBT PAID TO SOCIETY!" End of story. Good luck and don't do it again!
As for drug use, as long as no violent action was involved they need to be put into rehab not prison. It'll save us money in the long run instead of having to shell out money for 3 hots a cot and a sissy for these people. Plus, We wont have to pay welfare benefits when they get out of prison and go back to hitting the pipe while on skid row.
FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION PEOPLE! USE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS VALUES! THEY WORK! This tyranny which is cruel and unususal punishment doesn't.
Amazingly I find myself agreeing somewhat with judge blockhead. Just goes to show a broken clock is right twice a day.
Scumbag felon should pay closer attention to not being a scumbag felon.
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
Speaking of people being in prison because they broke a federal law, patriots need to address the following concern. How many people are in federal prison for possibly breaking a federal law that the states have actually never delegated to the corrupt feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to make?