Comments on: Behave Yourself Or No Candy!

By: erico49

erico49 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:03:45 +0000

We need to lock up the people we are afraid of, not those who just pissed us off.

By: Three tier jails

Three tier jails — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:40:15 +0000

We basically have a three-tier jail system (plus a couple more if including the nut house).

Pie in the sky idea: The big change I’d like to make is to have very limited space for the worst of the worst. The prisoners who absolutely did it and are serving long or life terms for violent crimes. If they have no chance of overturning the conviction etc., I see no reason to keep them alive. Money savings potential is large if we can get the lawyers to stop fighting for these maggots.

More doable idea: Change the laws and punishment of the relatively harmless stuff where we are harshly disrupting and incarcerating someone who was mostly law abiding and paying taxes before getting jailed for having some of grandma’s pills. (Numerous other examples of insignificant crimes blown all out of proportion by the for-profit machine.) This person needs forced treatment but typically not expensive lockup. We fix them and they keep paying taxes is the plan. No, we are not effectively doing this now.

We do have a broken system overall. Laws, Police, Courts, Jails. It seems to be a for profit system. We are rapidly becoming a police state where neighbors are claiming a man exercising on the sidewalk looks suspicious and the police will shake him down based on the simple say so of the paranoid citizen. Cops are still not being held to account for errors and violations of rights. Not to mention the ignorance of the population about the ever more intrusive surveillance by our own governments and police. How many new laws did they pass today?

The supersized for-profit jail is every Sheriff’s dream of a revenue stream just for his department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/08/jeff-bezos-protests-the-invasion-of-his-privacy-as-amazon-builds-a-sprawling-surveillance-state-for-everyone-else/

EDITOR NOTE–What about the candy bar?

By: W

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:50:18 +0000

Empty the Jails…..apparently, you’ve never encountered someone high on PCP, bath salts, or any one of a number of other drugs that have effects on humans that you can’t even imagine. Making such substances – which have no safe amounts or safe uses whatsoever – would be sheer insanity. There is no freedom argument when it comes to drugs such as the ones I’m speaking of. It’s a serious public safety issue through and through and that trumps “hey, leave me alone….I’m not bothering anyone” all day long.

By: Empty the Jails

Empty the Jails — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:29:42 +0000

Paul – Incarceration rates soared after Nixon started the War on Drugs. Legalize all drugs. Leave people alone unless they are creating a disturbance.

By: Forced Air

Forced Air — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:38:05 +0000

Thanks to Eamonn Harter for posting what was going to post on this. This TG freak is demanding way more than a chocolate bar. This is what liberalism has wrought.

By: Eamonn Harter

Eamonn Harter — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:22:36 +0000

Behave yourself or no sex change operations!

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/state-ordered-to-pay-for-surgery-for-transgender-prison-inmate/article_c43c405e-1e9b-57f2-9829-f774e12737d0.html

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:02:20 +0000

It is not well understtod it costs nearly $100/day to incarcerate peope. ADA county acknowledges it costs them $97.50/day. All thi cost comes back on property taxpayers at the county level. We need ti figure out what models of incarceration are used in other western countries to keep their incarceration levels lower than what is the reality in the USA. Canyon County is going to try and pass a $190million bond election this May. It will likely fail and Comm. Tom Dale has admitted they will then seek Judicial Conformation to build a new jail. I can now visualize Comm. Tom out shopping for the right judge to get this monster built.

By: W

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:03:36 +0000

Not sure where 3rdGenBoise is getting his or her information, but it just simply isn’t true that anyone is spending a great deal of time incarcerated here in the Gem State for “holding a small amount of weed”. In Idaho, simple possession of marijuana in personal use amounts is a misdemeanor, punishable by no more than a year in jail. (And getting any jail time at all in such cases would be unusual). To become a felony, the amount has to be substantially larger – definitely not what one would consider personal use or medicinal in nature. And even in those cases, the very maximum incarceration – which would be an unheard of sentence these days – is five years. In fact, the only substantial sentences that involve marijuana in Idaho and that result in any sort of significant prison time are in cases where there are other, serious crimes involved or where the defendant is convicted of trafficking, which is a world apart than simple possession.

By: Freedum

Freedum — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 07:40:38 +0000

The chocolate ration will be increased from 30 grams to 25 grams criminal, aren’t you lucky!

Go USA! We’re #1(highest incarceration rate per capita in the world)

Strange that we’re somehow qualified to bring freedom to the rest of the world…

By: Easterner

Easterner — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:11:53 +0000

Monkey see. Monkey do.

Let’s recall the Boise Police Chief offered pizzas to the cop getting the most DUI arrests.

A reward for doing what you are supposed to do…

A Mr. Goodbar, donuts, or a pizza- it’s the same.

EDITOR NOTE–I believe the pizza deal was just among the officers. Chiefs I have known would not condone “quotas” of any kind. Point of the story was the idea of getting cons to behave for a chocolate bar.