I agree with your disagreement Skywalker. There we go with leftist policies that blame other people for their problems,no one has the fear of God imbedded in their head anymore. Nobody has responsibility on anything. So they blame anyone who is more successful in life. I'm not saying throw the baby out with the bath water, life is about second chances and redemption. And also compassion. That don't fair unless you understand that only you are accountable for your actions.
Unless a person is mentally impaired, we all have a moral compass. If a person chooses to ignore the compass and follow a life of crime for the easy money over working and earning it, whether that person is 14 or 40, they deserve the sentence they get. If their compass is broken, then they belong in an institute, not on the streets. I do not buy that it is society's fault or their environment's fault for their crimes.
get busy living, or get busy dyin! our society is a disgrace to what it used to be....our legal sytem is a disgrace to what it used to be.....
The prison system should be a place where everyone is afraid to go. The only people afraid of today's prisons are little white guys with "pretty mouths".
Theres hope! CLEVELAND, Ohio — Police were called to Michael R. White Elementary School on Cleveland’s east side Friday morning after someone reported shots fired. After arriving at the scene, officers learned no shots had been fired. According to Commander Wayne Drummond, a riot broke out following a kindergarten promotional ceremony. “No gun, shots fired,” Drummond said. Six adults and two teenagers were arrested, Drummond said. All of those arrested were taken to jail, and they face charges of aggravated rioting. They are expected to be in court sometime next week. “It’s a shame — something like this would happen at a promotional ceremony for young kids. When people act like this, they are going to jail,” Drummond said. According to Drummond, a hammer and a club were confiscated at the scene. No one was injured. Roseann Canfora, the district communications officer for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, said the fight took place outside of the school. The juveniles involved were not Michael R. White students, Canfora also said, citing reports. The school is located on East 92nd Street near Pierpont Avenue. Several parents and grandparents showed up at the school to get their children after they learned police were at the building. “I came up here to get my grand-kids,” said Dwayne Harris. “I was concerned because there is so much going on at the schools today you know, I was really concerned.” Johnson Jones, who picked up his granddaughter, agreed. “What a sad way to end the ceremony for such a great occasion, but I told my grand-daughter don’t hold her head down, she has a lot to be proud of.”
Maybe one of you could help! AKRON, Ohio – Two men are charged with killing four people whose bodies were found in the basement of an Akron apartment in April. “It was really violent. It’s something that we don’t see often, but really tragic for the victims and more so for the families,” Lt. David. Whiddon of the Akron Police Department said. Deshannon Haywood and Derrick Brantley, both 21, are each charged with four counts of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery. “We did get some pretty strong information that indicated they were involved somehow,” Whiddon said. The four victims, found April 18 on Kimlyn Circle, were identified as Ronald Roberts, 24; Kem Delaney, 23; Maria Nash, 19; and Kiana Welch, 19. All were shot in the head, some several times, police said. Police believe the motive was robbery. They said the suspects knew one of the victims and they also said there was no sign of forced entry. Police said officers interviewed Haywood and Brantley about the murders early on. Officers said the men lied to them, and both were charged with obstructing justice. Haywood was already in jail. “So, they’ve been in custody, actual custody at the jail for a couple of weeks now,” Whiddon said. Police would not reveal any details of the investigation, saying it’s still ongoing. “You know we made these arrests. But we are still looking into some stuff, there’s a lot of stuff we have to do, some other people we know have information that we want to contact,” Whiddon said.
1. Convicts are in prison solely because they committed a crime. It is not the government’s fault the person decided to commit the crime. It was a personal choice of their own to do this and the whole blame for their life from the time they committed the crime until the day they die lies squarely on their shoulders, not anyone else’s. 2. Many criminals know that if they commit a crime and are sentenced to prison, the state systems are overloaded and the probability of them being paroled early is pretty good, so there is no real consequence for what they have done. I know of a person who had a methamphetamine lab in his house and was driving without a license. When an officer was arresting him for operating a motor vehicle without a license, the person tried to wrestle the officer’s handgun away from him. As they struggled for the gun, the guy squeezed the trigger and missed shooting the officer in the head by no more than an inch. The guy was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his crimes but was back on the streets within 5 years due to overcrowding and his “good behavior”. Within three months of being released, he was arrested again with another methamphetamine lab. Had the dirtbag been forced to serve his 50 years, the second incident would not have happened. 3. While incarcerated, every able bodied prisoner should be required to perform hard labor at least six days a week. Every day after busting their butts for 10 to 12 hours, I would be willing to bet there would be fewer issues with the prisoners at the end of the day because all they will want to do is get cleaned up and sleep. The labor should be work as in farming with hand implements raising fruits and vegetables for the prisoners to eat; making big rocks into gravel for the prison yards; performing their own laundry services; etc. If an able bodied convict refuses to work, their meals should be reduced to the minimum daily need to sustain life in the form of gruel. Those in “special housing units” for trouble makers would be given the same gruel as those who choose not to work. 4. Sentences should be minimums only and no maximums. When convicted, a convict sentenced to 10 years imprisonment is going to spend a minimum of ten years in prison. While imprisoned, as long as they work to earn their keep, stay out of trouble, and demonstrate they have learned the errors of their ways, they can be released at the end of the sentence and not before. If the prisoner is constantly breaking the rules in the correctional facility, even though their minimum sentence has been met, they remain in prison until they learn the lesson. 5. Minimum sentencing guidelines should be consistent for all states. If you steal a car in New York and are sentenced to 10 years, if you go to California and do the same thing the result will be the same 10 years. Serving sentences concurrently should be ended and all sentences be served consecutively. Judges should not be able to sentence convicts by their own personal beliefs, but only by how the law says to sentence them. 6. Prisoners who do not have a high school diploma need to be required to obtain one before being released. While working towards their diploma they would be allowed to work half days at their labor assignments as long as they were diligently working towards graduation. If a prisoner was found to be trying to work the system by intentionally dragging out their studies, they would be removed from the program for a minimum of one year before being eligible again. Exemplary prisoners who completely abide by the rules during the first five years should be given the opportunity to take trade classes to learn job skills. 7. Remove commissary stores and televisions, radios, and other types of media. This is not a spa or a resort and prisoners should not be kowtowed to. I believe if we start here and make further adjustments if and when needed, correctional institutes could start living up to their name. Prisons would no longer be a place to learn a new criminal trade or build gang associations. There would be no reason to have recreation yards with weight lifting equipment, or sports activities as they are not there to recreate.
Iowa veteran. I like your ideas. We need more men like you in congress, people need to stop falling for the "tug on your heart strings" style of politics.
People make mistakes, some make more stupider ones than the other. Sure its simple, and yea I agree with you, but the reason why inmates return is because after they've done their time, they cannot get legit jobs. Where do you think they will go to get money? Thats right back to crimes because it pays and legit jobs won't. Do you see how your thinking just doesn't work?
I agree with you. But like I stated before, as much as we would like to punish these guys forever, if we don't address what they do after they get out of jail, it will be a neverending cycle. We have to address what happens AFTERWARDS, if they cannot get jobs, they will go back to crime. Sure you can say, I dont care what they do, they can shovel ****. That doesn't solve the problem, all we do is ignore it and then wonder why they go back to jail. We can train them all we want in prison, but if they can use those skills when they get out, it is absolutely useless.
Legitimate employment requires commitment and discipline, these people lack both, throw in a lack of ambition, minimal intelligence and you a recipe for making criminals.
These guys have to "want" to change themselves. We can't go on rewarding them and telling them its not their fault. Our inner city is run by liberals. Lets leave what side of politics you are out of this. But a welfare based city doesn't help anyone. Lets remember that the real victims are soon forgotten. I'm all for forgiving ones sins. But that's not an excuse. Criminals need to repent.
When you punish your children, after the punishment is over its done right? The criminals do their crimes in prison and serve it out, this is the law being the father/mother and them being the child. What john galt said may be true for some but not all. Its pretty well evidenced by people who have broke out from their criminal acts that some of them are smart and have dedication, foundations for being a functioning serving member of society. By barring them from obtaining jobs, you are sending those people back to their life of crime when it could have been a life of good. You have people who want to change, but a society who won't accept, theyve done their time for their crime but that just doesn't fit with society. I wasn't saying that it was not the criminals fault as I believe anyone can rise from the slums. My parents are immigrants and started as lower than minimum wage workers and now own businesses. I hate it when people tell me they can't make it in this world, or that you just can't work your way up in society anymore, I firmly do not believe this. It is the criminal's fault, they had a choice to or not to commit the crime, but once they're done with their punishment, it should be over.
The problem is, our prison system is like that parents that threaten to punish the kids, but when it really comes down to it, they fold and don't follow through with the punishment. Surely you can see that. When you are given a sentence of 10 years, but parole in 3 and end up getting out after 18 months because of overcrowding. Couple that with fairly plush living arrangements, which may be better then they had when they were not in prison, you don't end up with much of a "punishment" at all. There's a kid from our town, I say kid but he's probably 23 years old now. Grew up with every advantage, a mother and a father, grand parents, siblings. Not a wealthy family, but they got by just fine. Basically your typical midwestern family. Before he was 18 he was busted for poaching by the conservation agent. Basically he had to pay fines, and because he was a minor(17) at the time, this doesn't show up in record. This kid stole everything he could, when something came up missing you could figure it was him. He stole a treestand, 2 trail cams and some misc. stuff from me about 5 years ago. I knew it was him, but didn't have any proof so I just let it go. After I heard he was busted, and couldn't hunt the rest of the year I took a walk on the property he was hunting and found one of the items he had stolen from me. Anyway, a couple years later he was busted for stealing. Then again for stealing, only this time it was prescription drugs and was a felony. But because of our system, it was pleaded down and basically only ended up getting time served and probation. The sentence was less than a year ago. Since then he broke into my neighbors house, stole a gun and cash, then got caught stealing more prescription drugs. It finally took him getting busted for stealing a hammer or something at a home improvement store for him to finally get arrested and put back in jail. We'll see how our justice system works, but a parole violation should mean he goes right to prison and serves that sentence plus whatever sentence he gets for his last rash of crimes. But, he'll probably be back on the streets in 6 months and eventually somebody will end up dead.
Home invasion is a BIG deal. Here in Ohio, he can be shot on spot no questions asked. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 2
