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GETTING STRAIGHT
New York Post ^ | 6/08/03 | HEATHER MAC DONALD

Posted on 06/08/2003 2:20:11 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:14:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

June 8, 2003 -- EVERY day, the nation's prisons release a walking crime wave: 70 percent of state con victs are re-arrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of their release.

A Justice Department study found that convicts let out from the prisons of 15 states in 1994 had been charged by 1997 with 2,900 homicides, 2,400 kidnappings, 2,400 rapes, 3,200 other sexual assaults, 21,200 robberies, 54,600 assaults and 13,900 other violent crimes, not to mention over 200,000 car thefts, burglaries and drugs and weapons offenses. Add in crimes they didn't get caught for, and the total is undoubtedly far higher.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugs; prison

1 posted on 06/08/2003 2:20:12 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
One of the enduring verities of criminology is that we don't know how to rehabilitate. We might learn how at some time in the future, but judging by the results of the techniques tried to date, we don't know how today.

If we did know how to rehabilitate -- as determined by results, not good intentions -- it would be callous of us not to do so. But, as we don't, the penal system cannot be forgiven for having scamped its duty to protect the public from predators, in favor of other, quixotic endeavors.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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2 posted on 06/08/2003 3:35:00 AM PDT by fporretto (Curmudgeon Emeritus, Palace of Reason)
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To: fporretto
The government very seldom does anything right but yet the Democrats want to keep enlarging it.
Plus you have more crooks in government than you do in the prisons you speak of.
3 posted on 06/08/2003 4:12:54 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: kattracks
Poverty, crime, deviancy, ignorance, multiculturalism, feminism, etc are Democrat constituancies and political parties do whatever is necessary to retain, nurture, and grow their constituancies.
4 posted on 06/08/2003 4:21:32 AM PDT by Consort
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To: kattracks
Number 1 they start on the wrong end of the line to try and rehabilitate these pieces of pond scum. Most of them have records an arm or mile long before they reach adulthood.

Recidivisim This report says 68% return to prison..which BTW is UP from the last recidivisim report in 1983 which said 62%. This is a report on parole & probation

The stats in these 2 reports are good arguments for STRONG support of the 2nd Amendment.

Parole and probation should be ABOLISHED.

5 posted on 06/08/2003 4:45:23 AM PDT by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: fporretto
One cannot rehabilitate those who don't want rehabilitation.

It all comes from within as any drug or alcohol addict can tell you.

Except for the hardcore pros and the utterly stupid, reform comes around the age of thirty, when the futility of doing life on the installment plan becomes apparent.

6 posted on 06/08/2003 4:55:26 AM PDT by metesky (Deathly afraid in Sheep (bleep) Falls, Maine)
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