Our politicians both parties play at getting tough on crime. And we the citizens never seem to hold their feet to the fire over their inactions or 'feel good' laws that are supposed to "fix" the problem.
The inmates run the prisons and the injustice system. Recidivisim rate is 68%
My child's killer will probably be released this Nov, as he has "maxed" out his 20 year plea bargain. We have fought 5 parole hearings. The most we can gain by fighting a 6th is an additional 6 months. Weighing the odds even if we did fight the parole hearing the probability of them refusing to grant him parole are slim with so little time left. They wanted VERY, VERY badly to parole him 2 years ago. Dennis and I have assessed the emotional, physical and financial toll it would take to fight what is in all a high probability a losing battle and have decided we will not oppose his parole. It will buy him a year of parole supervision versus no supervision at all. We do not see it as giving up on keeping Jeremy's killer locked up for as long as possible. The odds are very much against us. We fought and won 5 parole hearings. The very first was 10 months after our Jeremy's killer was sentenced.
It takes a lot of work to fight these hearings, it takes a lot of public involvement, which we get very little of BTW. A simple letter to a parole board goes a long way into keeping these killers in prison.
See my web site: THROW AWAY THE KEYS
Not only is it an outrage beyond belief that we may have as many as 800,000 murderers out roaming the streets of America (from your website), or that your son's brute thug killer is about to go on parole in Nov, 2002, or that sexual predators continue to be coddles and/or released only to commit more heinous crimes like those we have seen in the past months - BUT THE DEMOCRATIC CRIME ORGANIZATION IS ACTIVELY RECRUITING VOTERS FROM THE FELON POPULATION OF THIS COUNTRY - AND ITS CHIEF FINANCIAL SUPPORTING GROUP - TRIAL LAWYERS - WORK PRIMARILY AGAINST THE INCREASE OF TRUE JUSTICE for violent criminals rather than for it - either as defense lawyers or as liberal judges or as legislators who smirk and smile at murderers and who tolerate one in their own midst!!! and who tolerated a serial rapist as the head of their party!!!
Gail - there are so many "just causes" = but finding a way to somehow take this nation to a place where its justice system actually punishes severely violent criminals - eliminating from this earth those who do what was done to your son - and the same for serial sexual predators (which would, of course, include the former inhabitant of OUR WHITE HOUSE).....has to be top priority.
Thank you for taking the trouble to post this. Everybody should read it and bookmark it, print it out (and the associated articles within) to distribute, and/or email. Such important work. So much is at stake. Innocent lives. A sense of justice. The future of our country if Felons are allowed to vote legally!!!