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Jails emptied in the pandemic. Should they stay that way?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jails-emptied-pandemic-stay-way-140050107.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink ^

Posted on 06/12/2021 7:44:06 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill.

You can see where this article is going.

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KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bailreform; dystopia; jail; newyork
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Room for us.


21 posted on 06/12/2021 8:40:54 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Send them all to The Island.

Pick an unhabited tropical atoll that has fresh water and drop them off.

Every inmate gets their prison garb and a bedroll.

Send non-perishable food with the prison transfer team.

No lights.
No TV.
No radio.
No law library.
No gym.

Inmates’ sole goal is to live long enough to serve out their time and LEAVE.


22 posted on 06/12/2021 8:41:05 AM PDT by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Build more. Many more.


23 posted on 06/12/2021 8:45:42 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: HKMk23; All

Pretty good idea, but I would put it in remote Alaska instead.


24 posted on 06/12/2021 8:46:01 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: HKMk23; All

Pretty good idea, but I would put it in remote Alaska instead.


25 posted on 06/12/2021 8:46:01 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: grumpygresh
US has highest per capital incarceration rate in the world.

The violent crime rate among Norwegian-Americans is lower than the violent crime rate in Norway. I wouldn't be surprised if the incarceration rate among Norwegian-Americans was lower than the incarceration rate in Norway.

26 posted on 06/12/2021 8:59:59 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: The Louiswu

We don’t execute or accurately punish.


27 posted on 06/12/2021 9:09:13 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: DIRTYSECRET

We could significantly improve the state of crime, mental health, homelessness, and criminal punishment if we opened up the state-run mental hospitals and treated the seriously mentally ill as sick people who sometimes need treatment, sometimes need to be segregated from society. That said, there’s no way I trust the government who is currently holding dozens to hundreds of nonviolent protestors as political prisoners to say who is crazy and who isn’t.


28 posted on 06/12/2021 9:14:18 AM PDT by jz638
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To: Leaning Right

As a corollary, one burglar can create a one-man crime wave.


29 posted on 06/12/2021 9:16:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Lefties call anything they can use to subjugate other people "science.")
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To: Jeff Chandler

You have struck upon the invalidity of most trans national comparisons. Few nations have minority issues like the United States because few nations have minority populations like the Untied States. When you see a crime or incarceration comparison by nation which compares Japan or Switzerland to the US you can stop reading, because it is a meaningless comparison.


30 posted on 06/12/2021 9:21:33 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: DIRTYSECRET

More executions = fewer prisons needed


31 posted on 06/12/2021 9:39:47 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Another way to do it would be to stop pampering criminals. We can’t just open our jails. That is one of the main reasons crime has increased.


32 posted on 06/12/2021 9:39:53 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Negotiate the Falkland Islands to Argentina. Locals choose between NZ/GB/US/AUS citizenship. In return we dump as many as the sheep will accommodate and Argentina supplies security for say, 99 years. Win win win. Getting expensive for the Brits to maintain. An honorable, save face way out.


33 posted on 06/12/2021 9:55:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Sure, but I think the cemeteries would be a good place for some.


34 posted on 06/12/2021 10:00:48 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Demand for racism is outpacing supply.)
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To: HKMk23
Send them all to The Island.

Pick an unhabited tropical atoll that has fresh water and drop them off.

Every inmate gets their prison garb and a bedroll.

Send non-perishable food with the prison transfer team.

No lights.
No TV.
No radio.
No law library.
No gym.

Inmates’ sole goal is to live long enough to serve out their time and LEAVE.

See my FReeper profile for my version of that suggestion.

35 posted on 06/12/2021 10:03:43 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: notdownwidems
Pretty good idea, but I would put it in remote Alaska instead.

See my FReeper profile.

36 posted on 06/12/2021 10:05:49 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The incarceration rate of Nigerians and other predominantly black nations in Africa is much lower than the overall US average let alone the black average in the US.

Prison and legal system is very lucrative for those running those corrupt institutions. These institutions are too powerful and desperately need reform, They are increasingly politicized and are used as a hammer against those that oppose tyrannical government policies.


37 posted on 06/12/2021 7:58:50 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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To: grumpygresh
The incarceration rate of Nigerians and other predominantly black nations in Africa is much lower than the overall US average let alone the black average in the US.

Immigrants from those nations also tend to be more successful, socially and financially. Thomas Sowell explains why:


(Amazon)

38 posted on 06/12/2021 8:40:22 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: grumpygresh
Prison and legal system . . . are too powerful and desperately need reform, They are increasingly politicized and are used as a hammer against those that oppose tyrannical government policies.

That is a separate issue (and I agree!) African Americans are not targeted by law enforcement for political reasons, or out of racial bias.

39 posted on 06/12/2021 8:43:33 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The legal system targets those that are easy to beat. Poor, uneducated.

Watch out because the fascists running the legal system are busy politicizing it.

We need to get rid of qualified immunity for prosecution and judges. This is the only way for the individual to hold these people accountable for abuses of due process.


40 posted on 06/14/2021 6:20:47 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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