If it walks like a duck.....
talks like a duck, quacks like a duck.....chances are it's a f*cking DUCK.
The woman who brought the baby to the emergency room with the umbilical cord attached- the woman whose apartment reeked of a recent corpse--a corpse whose uterus had been cut into, that same woman stabbed another pregnant woman in the stomach 17 years ago, then tried to abduct a newborn from a local hospital.
She was sentenced 3 to 10 years, and was paroled in 1998.
Now I ask you........what happened after she got out? I can't believe she slipped back into society as whole new person, crazy head cured.
What sort of system releases these ticking timb bombs back into the general population and then just forgets about 'em till something worse happens, and then turns around to say, "Oh, yeah. We know that one. Been in jail before for something similar...."
No room in the jails, you say? No money for an extensive overhauling of the system? It seems to me the penal system is mostly filled with people picked up for drug offences- not criminal dealers, but users caught in possession. They clog the entire apparatus, and it allows a far more dangerous class of criminal to get out and walk around- and to repeat ever more violent acts just as we see in this case today.
The prison population is comprised of mostly poor blacks who are the most likely targets to be caught up in drug trafficking and usage, because they're easy marks and easy arrests. They allow police departments get a gold star for locking up bad guys. They're easy marks for the drugs themselves because so many of their young men and women have no prospects, no future- a bellyful of anger, and prefer to blot out reality when they can. A black man or woman is more likely to have the book thrown at them than a more privledged white person -many of whom are college age or young professionals who also take drugs and are sometimes caught- but much less likely to be prosecuted. It's easier to let them walk or do some civil service reparations, pay fines, etc.
Within prisons, offenders grow more calloused and more dangerous, and I can't help but believe that releases happen due to overcrowding and needed space, rather than evidence of true behavioral changes.
So the overhauling is of a much more global nature than simply building new prisons. It starts at its roots: racial profiling and prejudice, a better way of handling drug problems than the simple 'lock em up'- and for right now and until that day that blacks and whites are more evenly matched in privilege in this country, which I would suspect will take another hundred years- more intensive regulations on how released prisoners are monitored, with greater emphasis on accountability for both the parolee and parole officer, and within departments that need mental health workers and counselors, not just watchdogs and baggage checkers.
Prisons are for rapists, murderers- those who have been proven to attempt murder- and true major drug dealers (not those selling to promote their habit) and for all violent offenders only. That is my honest opinion. Thieves should be made to make restitution. Drug addicts given help in other ways. Prostitutes given health screenings and allowed to ply their trade because the johns never go to jail, and it's ridiculous to punish just one party in a two-way transaction.
I guarantee that if these policies were put in place right now, we'd have a better society all round. Almost overnight.
The woman who brought the baby to the emergency room with the umbilical cord attached- the woman whose apartment reeked of a recent corpse--a corpse whose uterus had been cut into, that same woman stabbed another pregnant woman in the stomach 17 years ago, then tried to abduct a newborn from a local hospital.
She was sentenced 3 to 10 years, and was paroled in 1998.
Now I ask you........what happened after she got out? I can't believe she slipped back into society as whole new person, crazy head cured.
What sort of system releases these ticking timb bombs back into the general population and then just forgets about 'em till something worse happens, and then turns around to say, "Oh, yeah. We know that one. Been in jail before for something similar...."
No room in the jails, you say? No money for an extensive overhauling of the system? It seems to me the penal system is mostly filled with people picked up for drug offences- not criminal dealers, but users caught in possession. They clog the entire apparatus, and it allows a far more dangerous class of criminal to get out and walk around- and to repeat ever more violent acts just as we see in this case today.
The prison population is comprised of mostly poor blacks who are the most likely targets to be caught up in drug trafficking and usage, because they're easy marks and easy arrests. They allow police departments get a gold star for locking up bad guys. They're easy marks for the drugs themselves because so many of their young men and women have no prospects, no future- a bellyful of anger, and prefer to blot out reality when they can. A black man or woman is more likely to have the book thrown at them than a more privledged white person -many of whom are college age or young professionals who also take drugs and are sometimes caught- but much less likely to be prosecuted. It's easier to let them walk or do some civil service reparations, pay fines, etc.
Within prisons, offenders grow more calloused and more dangerous, and I can't help but believe that releases happen due to overcrowding and needed space, rather than evidence of true behavioral changes.
So the overhauling is of a much more global nature than simply building new prisons. It starts at its roots: racial profiling and prejudice, a better way of handling drug problems than the simple 'lock em up'- and for right now and until that day that blacks and whites are more evenly matched in privilege in this country, which I would suspect will take another hundred years- more intensive regulations on how released prisoners are monitored, with greater emphasis on accountability for both the parolee and parole officer, and within departments that need mental health workers and counselors, not just watchdogs and baggage checkers.
Prisons are for rapists, murderers- those who have been proven to attempt murder- and true major drug dealers (not those selling to promote their habit) and for all violent offenders only. That is my honest opinion. Thieves should be made to make restitution. Drug addicts given help in other ways. Prostitutes given health screenings and allowed to ply their trade because the johns never go to jail, and it's ridiculous to punish just one party in a two-way transaction.
I guarantee that if these policies were put in place right now, we'd have a better society all round. Almost overnight.
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