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Originally Posted by hvp05 You make it sound like it's some kind of secret society. Probably the reason the average citizen does not hear much from within the system is that there is rarely anything valuable to pay attention to. Most inmate complaints are along the lines of, "I want more peanut butter," or "My pillow isn't fluffy enough!" |
There might be some inmates that complain about peanut butter and pillows but that just shows that they are immature and need to be helped to grow up and not degraded and disposed of. But the more mature and more educated inmates make real complaints about the abuses and the mistreatments the beatings the unhealthy living conditions and particularly they complain about being denied their Constitutional rights because our prisoners are American citizens.
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Originally Posted by hvp05 Previously you have stated they judged you mentally stable. Is this an obscure admission/retraction? |
No, I do not have a mental illness myself but I do know many people that do and I am very concerned about the issue of mental illness and I have studied the subject very much. I certainly do not like using the jails and prisons as a means of confining the mentally ill and that appears to be the case now.
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Originally Posted by hvp05 Yes, you're wonderfully informative. But where is your proposal for reform? |
I am not making this a part of my campaign platform and I see the first step to any reform is to expose the problem, and I certainly am open to any helpful ideas to reform the system.
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Originally Posted by hvp05 Given that you want to deflate a large percentage of St. Mary's' tax base, I can't imagine that you want to build a new incarceration facility. Perhaps you believe that once you have successfully deflated the aforementioned tax base there won't be many people left to commit crimes. |
To build a new jail I do agree with as the old SMCDC is in need of repair and it is abusively overfull. But I still say that if we start to control the growth and stop the reckless inflation then the crime rate will drop too.
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Originally Posted by hvp05 Or maybe you simply wish to release the poor, abused mentally fragile folks to roam free with impunity. Then they can run for public office and join you in running St. Mary's into the ground!  |
To release the poor and the mentally fragile is a great idea.