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MarkinAZ User ID: 20006444 United States 12/25/2012 08:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FACE IT!! In America prisons are a HUGE part of our economy. They are BIG BUSINESS. The cost of courts, lawyers, prosecutors, defense counsel, etc., has put the law and simple fairness out of the reach of all but the very well-to-do. It costs, on average, almost fifty thousand dollars per year to keep someone incarcerated in a Federal Prison. A bit less per year in some state prisons and about the same in others. The prison guards are now known as "correctional officers" and they've unionized and their collective bargaining agreements have turned their lowly jobs into well paying, well funded positions that many states now cannot afford any longer! The ONLY way to get out of these agreements is to privatize the prison system (which has been tried with dubious success) or to reduce the number of people behind bars and hence the numbers of "officers" needed to keep them there. The US has a higher percentage of it's population in prison at any given time than almost any other country on earth! Something is BADLY wrong with this picture. BADLY WRONG! So if the result of going off this Fiscal Cliff is a closure of prisons for simple cost savings - then it's beginning to look like a better an better deal every day! To get non-violent crimes out of prisons and into other types of programs based in a community would make sense! Putting kids in prison for possession of a few ounces or less of Marijuana - as was common during the "war on drugs" that we have so badly lost - is absurd. The loss of productive years, the loss of creative minds and the fact is that kids once sent to prison tend to get on the "repeat track" and some will spend the rest of their lives in and out of various institutions. Maybe the US not being able to do such absurd things for economic reasons begins to make sense after all?? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 29724397 United States 12/25/2012 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Essentially they are saying: FUCK YOU PEOPLE! WE DON'T GET PAID, WE TURN THE DOGS LOOSE ON YOU. What good public servants they are. I say this... Let them go. We will deal with them as we will deal with you! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 29752593 Ireland 12/25/2012 08:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to seattle.cbslocal.com] Quoting: MERRY GANGRAPING CHRISTMAS 30841530 This shit is disgusting now...and they want our guns ....WHAT A SINISTER JOKE Nobody wants our guns. Why do you people instill fear among others. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 30863446 United States 12/25/2012 09:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The military can be kind of picky about criminal records. If thugs are let out, they will be hired by the TSA. Depends on how much they need soldiers. They should release everyone with minor drug offenses. Keep the violent criminals. [link to www.cbsnews.com] More recruits with criminal records, including felony convictions, are being allowed to join the Army and Marine Corps as the armed services cope with a dwindling pool of volunteers during wartime. The military routinely grants waivers to take in recruits who have criminal records, medical problems or low aptitude scores that would otherwise disqualify them from service. Most are moral waivers, which include some felonies, misdemeanors, and traffic and drug offenses. Defense Department statistics show that the number of Army and Marine recruits needing waivers for felonies and serious misdemeanors, including minor drug offenses, has grown since 2003. Some recruits may get more than one waiver. Even the military has had to admit that we are arresting too many people for too many petty things. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 30425386 United States 12/25/2012 10:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to seattle.cbslocal.com] Quoting: MERRY GANGRAPING CHRISTMAS 30841530 This shit is disgusting now...and they want our guns ....WHAT A SINISTER JOKE Story is all hype to harrass congress to give in to the obamacare funding. That 1 little detail they cant resolve. Stand your ground or we are finished. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 30858640 United States 12/25/2012 10:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is why the randem slaughter of Americans and their children: Israel launches new missile that can reach New York and Tokyo 03.11.2011 | Source: Pravda.Ru [link to english.pravda.ru] Israel ranks 6th With The Most Nuclear Weapons: “Zionist Israel's Thermonuclear Blackmail Of America“: [link to www.youtube.com] Censored at godlike productions.comrense.com/general35/isrnuk.htm Michael Chertoff's Childhood in Israel: [link to www.bollyn.com] “Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio: "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." Get rid of them: |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 30867947 United States 12/25/2012 11:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We are facing the new world order....the antithesis of The God.of.the Bible.....the exact reverse of the laws of the Bible... DO NOT HONOR YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER DO MURDER DO LIE DO COMMIT ADULTERY DO STEAL DO WORSHIP FALSE GODS DO BREAK THE SABBATH DO TAKE THE LORDS NAME IN VAIN DO BE JEALOUS OF ALL YOU NEIGHBOR HAS DO WORSHIP THINGS MADE BY THE HANDS OF MAN now its not just a law when the law is thrown away....it is the absoulute fruition of evil in each and every law broken....and throughout history we have examples of each of the commandment laws broken....JUST IMAGINE IF THEY ALL ARE ENFORCED & MOCKED AT ONE TIME |
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