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I have a suggestion. Let's try her example by closing one prison.....and mandating that all of the prisoners be put into her zip code.

1 posted on 03/14/2014 2:47:35 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

How about exiling them to remote islands in shark infested waters?


2 posted on 03/14/2014 2:52:46 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Obviously there are no prisons in marxist countries.


6 posted on 03/14/2014 3:09:11 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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No prisons - pay fine, stand in public stocks, or death.


7 posted on 03/14/2014 3:09:35 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Only violent criminals should be jailed.


9 posted on 03/14/2014 3:12:38 AM PDT by Bobalu (Happiness is a fast ISR)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Process them into Soylent and fed it to the liberal cannibals


12 posted on 03/14/2014 3:20:37 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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Notice the article called her a “social activist” in the lead instead of a hard core COMMUNIST. Here are some examples of her social activism:

“She emerged as a nationally prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA....She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s.

On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson, a heavily armed 17-year-old African-American high-school student, gained control over a courtroom in Marin County, California. Once in the courtroom, Jackson armed the black defendants and took Judge Harold Haley, the prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages.[17][18] As Jackson transported the hostages and two black convicts away from the courtroom, the police began shooting at the vehicle. The judge and the three black men were killed in the melee; one of the jurors and the prosecutor were injured.

Davis had purchased the firearms used in the attack, including the shotgun used to kill Haley, which had been bought two days prior and the barrel sawed off.[18] Since California considers “all persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense... principals in any crime so committed,”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

She was found not guilty later in an OJ type trial.


13 posted on 03/14/2014 3:21:10 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Red in Blue PA

Maybe if it was all Whiteys in prison, she’d change her mind.


16 posted on 03/14/2014 3:33:24 AM PDT by laweeks
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We need prisons but the prison system as we know it could use some correcting.

Too often we send people to prison only to see them emerge years later worse than they were when we sent them there. Years of GenPop exposes them to the worst of humanity where they either must plumb new depths of depravity to survive and/or learn new depths of negative behavior. We too often wind up creating new monsters while trying to punish the ones we fear most.

I don’t know what the answer is. But, the current system is far, far from ideal,


17 posted on 03/14/2014 3:33:56 AM PDT by FAA
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I will be the first to agree that there are a lot of people in prison who shouldn’t be there. But there are a whole lot more who need to be locked up. The trick is identifying the first group from the second.


21 posted on 03/14/2014 3:47:05 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Red in Blue PA

I have long said that most prisons should be closed. Prison creates monsters (and yes, of course, there are some monsters there who were like that before they went to prison).

In order for the Jim Noble close all prisons plan to work, 3 things need to happen:

1) Radical expansion of the death penalty.
2) Physical punishment for property crimes and drug offenses
3) Creation of an offshore island isolation facility for lifelong incarceration for certain violent crimes (those where the offender is not executed).


22 posted on 03/14/2014 3:50:41 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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Too bad she didn't "imagine there are no prisons" and think "prisons obsolete" when on her extended pilgrimage through her idealized Soviet block countries (before the collapse)! She was then called out for it by a genuine champion of liberty and enemy of oppression - author & dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn .

In fact when Czech prisoners had appealed for her support (having heard of her opposition to prisons in the US) the Commie lackey refused them. Her history of being only against prisons in non-Communist countries is a fact that only a propagandist could ignore.


Davis as honored guest of regime members of the East German Communist prison state.

28 posted on 03/14/2014 4:18:21 AM PDT by drpix
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Angela Davis is a despicable hardcore Communist who made a very nice and comfortable living off the system she abhors.

When she no longer draws breath, the world will be a better place.

That she now deludes anew generation is abhorrent.


29 posted on 03/14/2014 4:18:42 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Without a justice system that works, folks will rezort to vigilante justice.

A man’s wife gets raped? Perp is going to do the oak tree neck stretch. Someone steals my car? I burn down their house.


32 posted on 03/14/2014 4:22:39 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

That’s one way to cut down on the number of incarcerated black criminals.


33 posted on 03/14/2014 4:23:57 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Another 60’s radical turned criminal turned academic. What varied careers they have.


36 posted on 03/14/2014 4:36:15 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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So Angela, release violent predators into the population? Brilliant /sarc


37 posted on 03/14/2014 4:36:43 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Red in Blue PA; Jimmy Valentine's brother

This woman has been a hard left lunatic for a very long time. How she has a university position when she should be picking cotton is a mystery.


43 posted on 03/14/2014 5:01:47 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Imagine a broader use of the death penalty. It’s easy if you try, no ex prisoners preying on society, no prisons needed if they die.


45 posted on 03/14/2014 5:10:41 AM PDT by pallis
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Peterson called Davis “a revolutionary activist” and “arguably the greatest activist of the 20th century,” which generated cheers and applause. Nas told Davis he was honored to be sitting with her, because “you’re my hero.” She in turn praised Nas, saying it is through culture that most people develop their political consciousness “so thank you for your work.”

Sounds like one big circle jerk. The sad part is that these clowns take a real issue that should be discussed -- whether non-violent drug users should be in prison -- and overlay their racial oppression fantasies onto it and make the discussion useless.

51 posted on 03/14/2014 6:10:44 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Prisons were established with the largely humane intent to confine and reform criminals. Before the method used to protect society from that element involved a wooden platform, rope of adequate length and strength, and a festive crowd of onlookers. Or, as an alternative, exile to some far away harsh and unforgiving wilderness like colonial America and Australia. Now prisons are just hugely expensive (to tax payers) criminal academies that refine the talents and skills of the condemned so they can wreak even more havoc after release than before. Old options A and B are looking better and better.


53 posted on 03/14/2014 6:24:44 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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