Comments on: Budgets, Jail Closings and the ACLU Sues

By: teresa

teresa — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:53:43 +0000

intill you have been to jail shut your mouth….most of the people have drug problems….deal with that and the shit holes will not be over flowing with humans….

By: Greg Rynerson

Greg Rynerson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:37:23 +0000

I think jail needs to be a bit uncomfortable. As a bail bondsman, I have been inside many jails in Southern California. Although the jails are not perfect, the inmates are treated reasonably well. They get 3 meals, they are not tortured and some out-reach programs are available for those seeking those services.

Most of the people in jail committed a crime and should be punished. Unfortunaltly, not all people learn their lesson if you coddle them. Some of the people in jail are just plain “bad”. It’s unfortunate that they chose to break the law in first place.

In short, Los Angeles County jail system is not perfect. It never will be perfect. However, it does serve a purpose. I’m sure many of those incarcerated persons will think twice before committing their next crime.

By: don quixote

don quixote — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:16:33 +0000

Woody, when in the past there have been prisoner swaps with other countries, Mexico in particular, most prisoners opted to go back to Mexico rather than stay in the USA’s barbaric and draconian prison system.
Another roadblock is the lucrative multi billion dollar prison industrial system in place here that includes the Prison Guards unions who always attempt to put the kibosh on any prison swap plan or early release of inmates. You think there might be a conflict of interest here? Oh yeah.

Celeste, I agree with you 100% on closing LACJ, it’s been condemned nationally and internationally as the shithole and medieval Siberia it is. The culture of violence and depravity that exists there, not only with the hooked up inmates but with the sick Torquemada like LACS guards, is an international disgrace.

By: Woody

Woody — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:38:52 +0000

ACLU: developing alternatives to detention that reduce jail populations

Yeah, to the folks at the ACLU, throwing open the prison gates is preferable to saving costs, for which there is plenty of room when dealing with a union and government waste.

And, do you trust the ACLU’s referenced “studies” or our actual experiences with the criminal mind? Poetry classes are not a good solution for reducing repeat offenders.

Let’s pay Mexico a token amount to put our convicts in their stylish Mexican prisons, which is only fair seeing how many citizens of that country are crowding our prisons. Prisoners should be glad that they’re not in the prisons of other countries.