Jail/Prisons & Insanity.

[harleygirl]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

Reports say that there are over 2 million persons (male and female) are imprisoned in the USA, and some 32,000 in the State of Maryland system, and a daily average of 308 inmates in the St. Mary's County Detention Center (SMCDC), and our SMCDC is only designed to hold 245 inmates so our's is abusively over full.

I have taken tour of the jail when I was on the Grand Jury. They have better housing and meals then our soldiers fighting oversees. Join the military, eat an MRE out in the 110 degree heat while you are being shot at, and maybe I will sympathize with you.

[aps45819 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Flipside

Do you really think all these idiots are giving the Police permission to search their cars when they know damn well they got something in the car. NOT!

Of course they do. When the nice officer offers you a choice between a quick roadside search or getting a search warrant, impounding the vehical and dissassembling it, they opt for the roadside search.

Originally Posted by Flipside

So on one hand we have a lot of our young adults doing jail time and getting undeserved permanent records for very petty offenses.

Why is it "underserved"? If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Originally Posted by Pandora

JPC,

Cruel and unusual would be prying off your toenails with pliers and making you eat them.

It is not that if we go by the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court interpretation of cruel and unusual punishment.

Then what Pandora is describing is torture, and us returning to the dark ages.

Originally Posted by oldman

So you're saying all those in jail for non-payment had been working but the court ordered them to give all their earnings to the child/children or perhaps they were all afflicted with a disability just as the judge ordered them to pay. You've certainly opened my eyes because I had always thought they were just deadbeats to begin with but now I understand. After all, nobody would just go around making babies knowing they couldn't or wouldn't support them. Yep that's it, they had good intentions but the legal system got them down.

God bless you, that is exactly right. It is just that simple.

[BadGirl (Premo)]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

God bless you, that is exactly right. It is just that simple.

You just don't have a clue........., nor the ability to sense sarcasm.

[mv_princess]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

God bless you, that is exactly right. It is just that simple.

I wish you would go back to jail.

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

Reports say that there are over 2 million persons (male and female) are imprisoned in the USA

2 million inmates, out of a country of 300 million persons - that's only 0.6%.

Not too shabby.





And I would daresay there are more dangerous criminals walking the streets than there are filling prison cells.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[kwillia (Premo)]

Originally Posted by JPC, Sr.

To release the poor and the mentally fragile is a great idea.

You are advocating the poor and "mentally fragile" citizens of this country should be given waivers from having to follow the laws...

[itsbob (Premo)]

I wish he'd stop with the friggin smilies alrady.