Get your hand basket ready to go.
Some people are convinced that a one strike law, named after one of the victims of a monster that murdered almost a whole family, is the answer to all sexual crimes. It would be a good law if it focused on just monsters.
I'm all for locking away for life, the person who is diagnosed as a sexual psychopath.
These people are mentally ill and should be medicated into zombie land, kept away from humans, each in their own small cages so they can't hurt each other, or anyone else.
For the sake of all children and adults a life sentence without parole is the only way to keep these sick bastards away from the rest of us.
I don't write laws, but I know there are laws on the books that cover just about every known crime. What's needed, in the light of Joseph Edward Duncan's crimes is a law that would have kept his sick and sorry ass locked away from the day he first lost his battle with evil.
It was evident to the doctors and staff in the begining, that 16 year old Duncan was a sick individual that shouldn't be allowed to walk among real people. But with the sentencing laws being what they are... The system was forced to turn him lose on a innocent community.
A new law that allows mental health specialists to diagnose a criminal as a Sexual psychopath and then be held in prison for life is what's needed.
Not a lock em' all up, and throw away the key law.
This is just in from The Washington Post; NORCO, Calif. -- This is what conditions are like at one of California's best prisons, the California Rehabilitation Center: Built to hold 1,800 inmates, it now bulges with more than 4,700 and is under nearly constant lockdown to prevent fights. The facility's once-vaunted drug rehab program has a three-month-long waiting list, and the prison is short 75 guards
It is even worse throughout the rest of California's 32 other prisons, which make up the second-largest system in the nation after the federal Bureau of Prisons. Despite a vow from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to cut the prison population, it has surged in recent months to more than 173,000, the worst overcrowding in the country, costing taxpayers more than $8 billion a year. More of those inmates return to prison because the state has the nation's highest recidivism rate.
A senior prison official warned not long ago of "an imminent and substantial threat to the public" and fears of riots have only increased. Like much of the rest of the nation over the past three decades, government enacted get-tough laws with long sentencing provisions that put people behind bars for longer periods of time.
Critics of the system say it is merely reflective of the deterioration of a variety of government services, including the state's educational system. But what has been at work in California's prisons also reflects the effect of the nation's experimentation with tough sentencing, combined with the internal machinations of state politics.
In the 1950s, '60s and '70s, California embraced a philosophy that the state could successfully treat individual offenders through education and psychotherapy, later, state lawmakers enacted legislation that said the purpose of incarceration was punishment alone, formally writing rehabilitation and treatment out of the penal code. As the prison population grew and rehabilitation stopped, the Department of Corrections turned into an organization with "no other pretensions but human warehousing.
It's the same all over the country. Over crowding, little or no health care, education or rehabilitation.
The One strik law will crush an overburdened court system add still more prisoners to an over crowded prison system, and cost the tax payers more then they want to pay to keep in prison for life, every person accused of a sex crime.
The one strik law isn't the answer. Most people who commit sex crimes CAN be rehabilitated. it is the few monsters like J.E.Duncan who need not ever be let out.
Some people are convinced that a one strike law, named after one of the victims of a monster that murdered almost a whole family, is the answer to all sexual crimes. It would be a good law if it focused on just monsters.
I'm all for locking away for life, the person who is diagnosed as a sexual psychopath.
These people are mentally ill and should be medicated into zombie land, kept away from humans, each in their own small cages so they can't hurt each other, or anyone else.
For the sake of all children and adults a life sentence without parole is the only way to keep these sick bastards away from the rest of us.
I don't write laws, but I know there are laws on the books that cover just about every known crime. What's needed, in the light of Joseph Edward Duncan's crimes is a law that would have kept his sick and sorry ass locked away from the day he first lost his battle with evil.
It was evident to the doctors and staff in the begining, that 16 year old Duncan was a sick individual that shouldn't be allowed to walk among real people. But with the sentencing laws being what they are... The system was forced to turn him lose on a innocent community.
A new law that allows mental health specialists to diagnose a criminal as a Sexual psychopath and then be held in prison for life is what's needed.
Not a lock em' all up, and throw away the key law.
This is just in from The Washington Post; NORCO, Calif. -- This is what conditions are like at one of California's best prisons, the California Rehabilitation Center: Built to hold 1,800 inmates, it now bulges with more than 4,700 and is under nearly constant lockdown to prevent fights. The facility's once-vaunted drug rehab program has a three-month-long waiting list, and the prison is short 75 guards
It is even worse throughout the rest of California's 32 other prisons, which make up the second-largest system in the nation after the federal Bureau of Prisons. Despite a vow from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to cut the prison population, it has surged in recent months to more than 173,000, the worst overcrowding in the country, costing taxpayers more than $8 billion a year. More of those inmates return to prison because the state has the nation's highest recidivism rate.
A senior prison official warned not long ago of "an imminent and substantial threat to the public" and fears of riots have only increased. Like much of the rest of the nation over the past three decades, government enacted get-tough laws with long sentencing provisions that put people behind bars for longer periods of time.
Critics of the system say it is merely reflective of the deterioration of a variety of government services, including the state's educational system. But what has been at work in California's prisons also reflects the effect of the nation's experimentation with tough sentencing, combined with the internal machinations of state politics.
In the 1950s, '60s and '70s, California embraced a philosophy that the state could successfully treat individual offenders through education and psychotherapy, later, state lawmakers enacted legislation that said the purpose of incarceration was punishment alone, formally writing rehabilitation and treatment out of the penal code. As the prison population grew and rehabilitation stopped, the Department of Corrections turned into an organization with "no other pretensions but human warehousing.
It's the same all over the country. Over crowding, little or no health care, education or rehabilitation.
The One strik law will crush an overburdened court system add still more prisoners to an over crowded prison system, and cost the tax payers more then they want to pay to keep in prison for life, every person accused of a sex crime.
The one strik law isn't the answer. Most people who commit sex crimes CAN be rehabilitated. it is the few monsters like J.E.Duncan who need not ever be let out.
posted by Gem_with_faraway_eyes | 8:09 AM
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The State of Florida has also gone the same route, eradicating educational and treatment programs in favor of other activities that amount to slavery. I have heard that the Florida DOC remains in willful violation of federal rules regarding the work of inmates, and that it willingly pays federal fines rather than allow its prison system to meet federal corrections standards. That is hearsay, let me repeat. But with the recent dismissal of the DOC secretary over corruption, and my own plentiful observations of corruption from the inside, I have no doubt that the system is completely broken.
Here's a link to an interesting article I heard a portion of on NPR last week: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5459923.
Gem said... The One strik law will crush an overburdened court system add still more prisoners to an over crowded prison system, and cost the tax payers more then they want to pay to keep in prison for life, every person accused of a sex crime.
I don't know where you get the idea that the OSL targets "every person accused of a sex crime," because it doesn't. It only effects those convicted of certain Class "A" Felony sex crimes. It targets people like Duncan before they escalate into serial killers.
Perhaps you got you false information from one of your pedophile boyfriends?
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