Payned, over at "Southern Sass on Criminal Activity Today," mentioned me in her "Get out the hand-basket post". It's about a man who has served ten years of a two hundred plus sentence for molesting two young boys, he had groomed and paid thirty dollars for oral sex.
The man also had a collection of pictures of children from news paper birthday notices and the kids phone numbers and addresses, from the phone book in his town, written beside the pictures of the birthday kids.
There is a link at Southern Sass on Criminal Activity Today, where one can write an email to the parole board and request that this fellow remain behind bars.
After reading about the case, I wrote an email. Ten years isn't enough, but... I am torn.
This man is one sick puppy. With the get tough on crime attitude people have these days, What is the chance he's getting good mental health therapy?
Prison doesn't offer more than three hots and a cot.
Education and therapy for the uneducated and mentally ill is non existent. Oh, there are those few that see the light, and who are self- motivated to improve their lives, who do manage to study and learn. Some even manage to attain a degree while incarcerated. But they are few and far between.
Mostly prison warehouses people, who come out better criminals, or still as sick, or sicker than before they were incarcerated. As they return to prison, the bureaucracy perpetuates it's self.
That's what it's about anyway. The system perpetuating it's self.
Parole is set up to create failer.
There is no wiggle room for the guy out on parole. He breaks curfew, for example, to dash out to the pharmacy to get medicine for a sick baby and he's busted. Back to jail he goes, to wait, up to six months, for a hearing, to see if he's going to be violated.
Unless he has a very understanding boss, he loses his job, If he lives alone he's going to lose his place to live, If he goes straight to jail he loses what ever belongings he may have.
The stats for people breaking parole go up by one, and the system works. Jobs in the system are secure, from judges to parole officers, paper pushers, bean counters, to the lowly gardeners.
A few years ago, GW Bush was asked, how the government knew how many new prisons it needed to build? The answer was, "By how many third graders failed the standard, no child left behind, test."
That alone makes me wounder how long it's going to be, before the world goes to hell in a hand-basket.
The man also had a collection of pictures of children from news paper birthday notices and the kids phone numbers and addresses, from the phone book in his town, written beside the pictures of the birthday kids.
There is a link at Southern Sass on Criminal Activity Today, where one can write an email to the parole board and request that this fellow remain behind bars.
After reading about the case, I wrote an email. Ten years isn't enough, but... I am torn.
This man is one sick puppy. With the get tough on crime attitude people have these days, What is the chance he's getting good mental health therapy?
Prison doesn't offer more than three hots and a cot.
Education and therapy for the uneducated and mentally ill is non existent. Oh, there are those few that see the light, and who are self- motivated to improve their lives, who do manage to study and learn. Some even manage to attain a degree while incarcerated. But they are few and far between.
Mostly prison warehouses people, who come out better criminals, or still as sick, or sicker than before they were incarcerated. As they return to prison, the bureaucracy perpetuates it's self.
That's what it's about anyway. The system perpetuating it's self.
Parole is set up to create failer.
There is no wiggle room for the guy out on parole. He breaks curfew, for example, to dash out to the pharmacy to get medicine for a sick baby and he's busted. Back to jail he goes, to wait, up to six months, for a hearing, to see if he's going to be violated.
Unless he has a very understanding boss, he loses his job, If he lives alone he's going to lose his place to live, If he goes straight to jail he loses what ever belongings he may have.
The stats for people breaking parole go up by one, and the system works. Jobs in the system are secure, from judges to parole officers, paper pushers, bean counters, to the lowly gardeners.
A few years ago, GW Bush was asked, how the government knew how many new prisons it needed to build? The answer was, "By how many third graders failed the standard, no child left behind, test."
That alone makes me wounder how long it's going to be, before the world goes to hell in a hand-basket.
posted by Gem_with_faraway_eyes | 7:58 AM
1 Comments:
Hmmmm.... and your point is?
I mean.... what exactly are you trying to say?
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