Universities vs. prisons budget proposal raises eyebrows

[ilbegone]

This is how the prison situation strikes me:

Some of it is a backlash on crime and some of it is about money and power.

I find it hard to believe a person in solitary confinement can run a criminal empire on the outside while being in solitary confinement without some collusion with correctional officers.

Such a person needs to be executed and his uniformed enablers need to do some time in a federal prison far from home

The same for any prisoner who kills another prisoner for any reason in jail. Take 'em out back and cap 'em.

No more life sentences. You get one swiftly addressed appeal, and it's done either way.

Then there's my belief that drugs are just or more available in prison as on the street. There has to be collusion.

The petty stuff or where self interest conflicts with justice

DA's generally get re-elected by their conviction rate. Prosecuting people is a gainful occupation.

So is jail oversight of convicts.

I believe that if it is found that a person is wrongly convicted due to a DA's contrived prosecution or police invention of evidence, those parties should serve double the sentence for the conviction.

Then there's the other crap. Such as: I understand that everything necessary to preside over an Anger Management class can be taught in sixteen weeks.

The court instructs the "school" to drag it out over 52 weeks. More money for the court, more money for the "school". More hassling the "subject" beyond what is necessary to achieve the social goal.

A lot of things need to change, not the least the graft built into the system.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

I spoke to someone recently who has spent 15 years in prison. She told me that drugs are easier to get in prison than on the outside. She was in prison for stealing Jaguars off the docks as they were being brought into the country. Next time I speak with her I'll as her more about her time in prison. She said she had a hard time getting through the court system to get off of parole because they couldn't find her file or told her the wrong place to go. She's now the manager of a department of a rather large corporation. Very interesting woman, you would never expect her to have been in prison. She is bright, went to private school and had a decent family. I wouldn't think that would be the common criminal.

[ilbegone]

Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

I spoke to someone recently who has spent 15 years in prison. She told me that drugs are easier to get in prison than on the outside. She was in prison for stealing Jaguars off the docks as they were being brought into the country. Next time I speak with her I'll as her more about her time in prison. She said she had a hard time getting through the court system to get off of parole because they couldn't find her file or told her the wrong place to go. She's now the manager of a department of a rather large corporation. Very interesting woman, you would never expect her to have been in prison. She is bright, went to private school and had a decent family. I wouldn't think that would be the common criminal.

You just never know who has what colors, and there are people who do learn their lessons.

One of the problems concerning recidivism in the correctional process is that no one wants to hire a convict - sometimes out of good reason and sometimes because of the stain of having a record. Right or wrong, our society is generally not forgiving of those who have "paid their debt to society", some never end paying.

I believe the visual concept of a criminal is a beetle browed knuckle dragging individual with a brick who assaults a man with a wallet.

Charming, articulate, good looking people have it all over everyone else in every way concerning judgment of themselves by others, including the attractive and personable among the criminally inclined.

Particularly if they have money to throw around.

No money, no honey.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

A person with money and an attorney get sprung right away. Those with modest to poverty stricken income get screwed in that respect. Justice is blind, until it comes to the dollar.

Something which comes to mind is the celebrity, unless he is found to be cheating on his wife - something few would pay attention to outside the of family if it was Joe
Schmoe running amuck on a beer budget.

Tiger Woods - is all the criticism because the man is wealthy and has women hanging all over him? Is that some sort of hypocritical social envy judgment by people who would do the same if they were in the same respective boat?

I believe a person will do a lot more time for knocking over a liquor store for a hundred bucks than faceless person who defrauded thousands of people out of millions of dollars over the internet.

And the first one will be locked into a cycle, the other will have easier opportunity to either go legit or renew covert, anonymous criminality.

The old saying is that a lot more people have been robbed with a pen than a gun.