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Release inmates?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/fiscal-cliff-lane-county_n_2365220.html?icid=maing-grid7|maing8|dl38|sec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D249875
I don't know. More deflection or more fear? In regards to California trying to lighten their financial load, they are willing to release inmates.... to save money? Go one step back. Quit prosecuting for petty crimes. If someone is worth incarcerating, keep them in jail and look to make cuts elsewhere. (I don't know... start with some of your welfare policies....)
I don't know. More deflection or more fear? In regards to California trying to lighten their financial load, they are willing to release inmates.... to save money? Go one step back. Quit prosecuting for petty crimes. If someone is worth incarcerating, keep them in jail and look to make cuts elsewhere. (I don't know... start with some of your welfare policies....)
"Quit prosecuting for petty crimes"
Yes and decriminalize drugs. Treat them as the health problem they are, rather than as crimes.
Yes and decriminalize drugs. Treat them as the health problem they are, rather than as crimes.
Never looked at it that way, but yeah, that's pretty much what they're saying, isn't it? LOL
So, it was only a crime until they couldn't afford it anymore? LOL, sorry I guess its not funny. But somehow it just is! rofl!
Delancy street as an option:
Yes, they have been effective for the most part. I have a close relative who got into trouble when he was 19 yrs. He was using speed and broke into the change machine at a laundramat.Both he and his friend, while using drugs had never behaved violently or in a antisocial way until then.
Due to youbger children being in the home and his drug abuse, his mom kicked him out and gave him a list of resources to contact for help on his way out.
Anyway when he was arrested he was going to get jail time and his mom spoke to an advocate who was able to get him into a place that was based on the same model as Delancey Street. It was called Walden house. He stayed a year and it was one very tough year but he left a man, one could be proud of. He has a successful life now and has never behaved in a criminal manner since.
It breaks my heart that so many of the young people who started out like him are now sitting in prison, having their cages rattled. They will never be the same.
Yes, they have been effective for the most part. I have a close relative who got into trouble when he was 19 yrs. He was using speed and broke into the change machine at a laundramat.Both he and his friend, while using drugs had never behaved violently or in a antisocial way until then.
Due to youbger children being in the home and his drug abuse, his mom kicked him out and gave him a list of resources to contact for help on his way out.
Anyway when he was arrested he was going to get jail time and his mom spoke to an advocate who was able to get him into a place that was based on the same model as Delancey Street. It was called Walden house. He stayed a year and it was one very tough year but he left a man, one could be proud of. He has a successful life now and has never behaved in a criminal manner since.
It breaks my heart that so many of the young people who started out like him are now sitting in prison, having their cages rattled. They will never be the same.
"Put a dog in a cage, beat on the bars with a stick every day for five years, let him out, he bites you on the a**, and no one's surprised. Do the same thing to a man and we wonder why he's not rehabilitated."
John Maher
John Maher
With 2 million incarcerated, the US penal system is a failure, It's a proven rehabilitation failure and a proven deterrence failure. Now it's becoming a privatized, for-profit failure.
There is at least one model that has been proven to work for over 40 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street_Foundation
but now that incarceration has become big business, I'm sure it has it's own lobbyists and the existing, self-perpetuating, failure model will continue.
There is at least one model that has been proven to work for over 40 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street_Foundation
but now that incarceration has become big business, I'm sure it has it's own lobbyists and the existing, self-perpetuating, failure model will continue.
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