California has a serious problem with the judicial system. We convict
them then suspend the sentence because there is no room in the
prisons. There is no room because we spend too much on making the
prisons better than the homes many live in. Instead we should be
making more cells, more beds and less frills. We also suffer the "not
in my neighborhood " syndrome. We agree we need more prisons but we
don't want to pay for them, even though we acknowledge crime is high
on our list of concerns. Maybe Florida has the right idea. They give
them a one-way ticket out of the state. (send them to Cuba the way
Castro sends them to us)
Al Hatten
'93 Virago XV-1100
VOC #7745
Napa,CA - Wine Country
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:55:24 -0700 (PDT), Inbred Redneck wrote:
>Succinct, as usual, Sir Jimbo. I'd been going to be more long-winded
and say, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
>Here in California, they're trying to overturn our "three strikes
you're out" rule. Bleeding hearts talk of long sentences for somebody
who stole a pack of Twinkies from a convenience store. The way I look
at it, if you've already got two strikes you'd better not even spit on
the sidewalk. Otherwise, we're telling somebody that once you get two
convictions you've carte blanche to keep doing the little stuff.
>This being a free country, these people make the most of exercising
their right to be stupid.
>
>Rob J
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>
>James Fallon <kissane11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>These people exercise their democratic right to make themselves
available
>for prison, who are we to stand in their way. Jimbo.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-virago@xxxxxxxxxxxx]O n
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>Sent: 27 September 2003 09:51
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>Subject: Re: The Janklow Saga
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>
>You should see some of the draconian legislation he ramrodded during
his
>tenure as Gov. He almost got a bill passed requiring mandatory jail
>sentences for
>any marijuana posession conviction. As if we as a nation haven't got
enough
>of
>a prison population! I may be wrong, but doesn't the good ol' USA
have more
>persons incarcerated than everywhere else in the Western world
combined?
>
>Zak
>
>In a message dated 9/27/03 1:30:10 AM Central Daylight Time,
>rscorrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
>
>> There is truly NO defense available, other than having his head
>> permanently stuck up his ass.
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