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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Rudy turned NY around but he couldn’t accomplish this.
For Reed, who said he has struggled with an addiction to crack cocaine, going to jail has meant losing his disability checks, his only source of income. Without income, he has no way to pay rent, and he fears that unless a family member can take him in, he will be homeless when he is released in September.
I have zero sympathy for this guy. He shoplifted a set of bedsheets from Target, and relies on disability money and theft to support his drug habit. He needs to be in jail.
Maybe jail will convince him to turn his li8fe around. That being said, if we were to fill the jails/prisons up, I’d rather fill them up with hard core/violent criminals, not petty thieves.
So this guy gets out and will return to jail at some time. It’s not sympathy he needs and the msm knows that. In the meantime WE pay for all this crap.
Execution isn’t appropriate for most offenses. Deportations are a good start but only if you have a way to keeping the offenders from returning. Prison is expensive but a fairly humane form of punishment though not always effective. We need to reshape the culture which glorifies the criminal and demonizes the law abiding. Good luck with that
Make the jails someplace they never ever want to be
And teach that to their 14 kids before they break laws
To save money I’d go to my past solution/idea. Run a steel cable down the middle of unused railroad tracks and handcuff one of their arms to it-thousands of miles of tracks out there. Give them a sleeping bag and an air horn to scare off animals. Let good people feed them along the way. They’ll appreciate humanity more. Cruel and unusual? I don’t think so.
Crime INCREASED in the pandemic
> Incarceration costs... $50k per inmate <
I’ve read that the average criminal causes 200k worth of damage per year. I don’t know how accurate that figure is, but it is something to consider.
Just watched “Papillion”. Great flick showing the hardships of the French penal system. They had a place to send them. Shut down eventually. Can’t do it here and these folks have a known propensity to be UNfunctional. A long walk across the country would do them wonders both physically and spiritually.
Non violent drug crimes are BS. Lots of ways to plant evidence, flip witnesses. Pretty hard to turn your life around with a record. Prison is not the cure for drug abuse. Physical and psychological abuse only makes these problems worse. Harm reduction is the best approach unless you personally gain by feeding off the prison system, legal system etc.
US has highest per capital incarceration rate in the world.
Send them to Australia
The dude needs serious help, not jail.
I get the whole “he needs to be in jail thing”
But that does not cure addicts
I was kinda impressed with the remake of Papillion
Was just thinking of watching it again this weekend while its hot out
I’ll compromise: fill the jails with illegals, and put guys like him in rehab.
If illegals harm other illegals send them both home where justice would be more appropriate.
Illegals need to be deported, not jailed, unless they committed a felony
Yes Rehab, real rehab designed for the patient and may require long term rehab. You can’t kick heroin in 20 days, that is why the go back to it. You need a half way house set up when done with rehab, jobs program to get them back in to the work force and community service to give back to the community.
That is way better then locking someone up in a metal cage for a few years. And it may even be cheaper and hopefully you get a functional useful person again in the workforce contributing back to the community.
It may not be 100%, sure people will slip back to their old ways, but if it saves 70% it would be a big step forward.
New York Legislature Passes Parole Reform Bill Intended To Slash Prison Population
God help NYS.
Sure! What the h#ll! Anything goes these days!
However, prisons are Big Business for Wisconsin, so I’ll bet ours are already at capacity, again. I don’t remember reading that Wisconsin was letting anyone out, just segregating the sick from the well.
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