Ex cons forced to live in tents.

[Showtime]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/08/04/parole.policies.ap/index.html

Wow that poor guy has it so tough :rolleyes:

I mean he's only a paranoid, fire starting, sex offender. Why should he have to camp outside when the state should find him proper housing?

-jel:halo:

[molecularfire]

While I don't have a problem with housing parolee's in tents if it became absolutely necessary... I'd like to suggest that we first start killing people in jail who have no possiblity of leaving jail. I never understood the concept of 1) sentencing someone to 5 billion years in jail when the average life expectancy in the U.S. is less than 80 years old. 2) releasing people from jail because our jails are so full of those people who we are supportig for the rest of their lives. If I'm going to have to support someone for the rest of their lives, they had better have boinked me and popped out at least a kid. I suggest that we first kill off everybody that has no chance of leaving jail without jumping a gate and renovate some of the jails to house people on probation.

[molecularfire]

By making me pay to support them, people like me get offended. :D

[attgig]

I've heard that with all the legal red tape that you have to go through, it costs more to get through the process of giving someone the death penalty vs. the cost of keeping them alive for the rest of their lives...

i have no documentation to support this, but you know..I heard that to be the case, and yeah... since I'm writing it on the internet, it HAS to be true ;)

[Tag]

That does not offend me at all !

I totally support executing scum :cool:

White Black Red Green > doesn't matter one bit.


Originally posted by Yossarian
because by killing them, we offend people

[blueindian]

yup, and then we can all have fun if we find out later that they were innocent.

:rolleyes:


besides, jails are overcrowded with non-violent criminals, mostly run in victimless crimes (like wackey-tobackey)

[Tag]

Just elect me to the Federal bench > I promise to have fair speedy low cost trials > than off they go



Originally posted by attgig
I've heard that with all the legal red tape that you have to go through, it costs more to get through the process of giving someone the death penalty vs. the cost of keeping them alive for the rest of their lives...

i have no documentation to support this, but you know..I heard that to be the case, and yeah... since I'm writing it on the internet, it HAS to be true ;)

[BrewMaster]

Originally posted by blueindian
yup, and then we can all have fun if we find out later that they were innocent.

:rolleyes:


besides, jails are overcrowded with non-violent criminals, mostly run in victimless crimes (like wackey-tobackey)

exactly. or wait until you are wrongly (or pehaps rightly) accused and in jail. our legal system is too flawed to start killing people. any other bright ideas? on second thought, don't answer that question...

:disa:

[molecularfire]

Yeah, I do agree that our system is flawed. However, I am of the opinion that what we should do is try to fix the system instead of just making it ineffectual. I have never bought the concept that since we make mistakes that we should make our system so ineffectual that guilty people are released.

Our system could definitely use work, but even with a great system some mistakes are going to happen. Simply put, we the public does not know what happens during a crime because we're not there and we don't trust those who were (usually with good reason) and no number of people who don't know what happened and don't care what happened is going to be able to figure it out correctly 100% of the time. Most people would rather let 10 guilty people go free than to arrest 1 innocent person... however, IMO, if we let those 10 guilty people go free... and they all kill one person, we have killed a lot more than one innocent people. Just because we wield the knives ourselves doesn't mean that our hands are free of blood.

As for most criminals being in jail for offenses that are not worthy of being executed... I do agree with you. The U.S. ranks second in the world in % of criminals compared to the general population (I think the data that I saw was 1/135 people have been or are in jail). I do NOT support jailing people for posession of drugs. I think it is a LOT more efficient to just leak tainted drugs into the circulation and advertise that we are doing it. :)

However, I still think that if we kill off all of the prisioners that are in jail with no feasible chance of parole, we should free up enough places to both save money and to support the parolee's.

[le_stick]

GLADIATOR!!!!!

at least in this case we, the society, will make money from the convicts instead of paying to keep them lock-up.

[Ladogaboy]

Well, as far as I'm concerned, forced labor should be a requirement for any inmate. I think that if we can hit a critical mass with inmate labor, most of us can just sit around and do nothing all day...

:hmm: :D