Comments on: Baca’s Big Move http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/ street news, views and stories of justice and injustice Tue, 22 May 2012 15:13:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: maggie http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/comment-page-1/#comment-2634 maggie Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:45:30 +0000 http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/#comment-2634 A link I found just yesterday on the Huffington Post, a "people's website" (I can look it up again if anyone cares -- or just go there and Google Paris Hilton), dated 6/16 re: the release of Paris Hilton and hoopla in her (and my) hood, quoted jail reps saying that Paris most definitely did NOT get spsecial treatment: they ripped off her family photos she'd put up there (none too gently), etc. -- Seems especially odd and political for the deputies to manufacture allegations a month later that are so minor. A link I found just yesterday on the Huffington Post, a “people’s website” (I can look it up again if anyone cares — or just go there and Google Paris Hilton), dated 6/16 re: the release of Paris Hilton and hoopla in her (and my) hood, quoted jail reps saying that Paris most definitely did NOT get spsecial treatment: they ripped off her family photos she’d put up there (none too gently), etc. — Seems especially odd and political for the deputies to manufacture allegations a month later that are so minor.

]]> By: maggie http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/comment-page-1/#comment-2605 maggie Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:07:43 +0000 http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/#comment-2605 I'm pretty sure the Times said home detention would still be voluntary; there seems no shortage of volunteers. They didn't state exactly how those needing mental help would get it, but I assume, via home visits. However, since Hilton's "medical condition" was claustrophobia -- and I don't discount it, I developed it after virtual dental torture in a root canal which took hours and suffocated me, and since then, just a few years ago, it recurs. But it's worst on places like planes, where you can't get up or get fresh air; at home, just sitting on a balcony should do it. (Are these people allowed out into their yards?) How did she end up handling it in solitary? Valium, or just screaming through it? But just as Baca is making his stand, supported by many -- he's taken the blame for there being not enough jails -- his problems are further compounded by allegations that Paris got special treatment: nothing major, a new jumpsuit, use of a cellphone. I wonder, did she just get it to make a call to Barbra Walters and others re: negotiations, or did she really have access 24/7? Why do these deputies hate him? I’m pretty sure the Times said home detention would still be voluntary; there seems no shortage of volunteers. They didn’t state exactly how those needing mental help would get it, but I assume, via home visits. However, since Hilton’s “medical condition” was claustrophobia — and I don’t discount it, I developed it after virtual dental torture in a root canal which took hours and suffocated me, and since then, just a few years ago, it recurs. But it’s worst on places like planes, where you can’t get up or get fresh air; at home, just sitting on a balcony should do it. (Are these people allowed out into their yards?) How did she end up handling it in solitary? Valium, or just screaming through it?

But just as Baca is making his stand, supported by many — he’s taken the blame for there being not enough jails — his problems are further compounded by allegations that Paris got special treatment: nothing major, a new jumpsuit, use of a cellphone. I wonder, did she just get it to make a call to Barbra Walters and others re: negotiations, or did she really have access 24/7? Why do these deputies hate him?

]]> By: Pokey http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/comment-page-1/#comment-2595 Pokey Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:07:31 +0000 http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/#comment-2595 Pokey is a little confused, currently, home detention is voluntary, and last year 8,713 inmates applied for the alternative to jail time, but now Baca wants to FORCE inmates who would PREFER to be in jail to accept home confinement. Don’t’ tell me that the convicted regulars are getting so smart that they gamble on getting a quick release from a crowded jail instead of having to stay at home for a prolonged period of time. Pokey is a little confused, currently, home detention is voluntary, and last year 8,713 inmates applied for the alternative to jail time, but now Baca wants to FORCE inmates who would PREFER to be in jail to accept home confinement.

Don’t’ tell me that the convicted regulars are getting so smart that they gamble on getting a quick release from a crowded jail instead of having to stay at home for a prolonged period of time.

]]> By: maggie http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/comment-page-1/#comment-2590 maggie Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:49:08 +0000 http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2007/admin/bacas-big-move/#comment-2590 This sure is ironic, in light of the way Delgadillo bashed Baca for letting Paris serve all but three days at home detention (before, of course, being dragged back to jail by a sourpuss judge called Judge Sauer, and having the whole thing blow up in Rocky's face, starting his rapid descent). Even more ironic is that some of this plan's loudest critics, per the Times, are advocates for the mentally ill, who fear these people will not have the treatment they need outside of jail. (They will, according to Baca, and the most serious ones will not be sent home. There will be plenty of volunteers, and if they choose this, they'll serve their full number of days at home, vs. a few days in jail.) It's this same group who wants Paris to be their spokesperson. Gee, if you asked her, which would she choose: jail or home confinement? This sure is ironic, in light of the way Delgadillo bashed Baca for letting Paris serve all but three days at home detention (before, of course, being dragged back to jail by a sourpuss judge called Judge Sauer, and having the whole thing blow up in Rocky’s face, starting his rapid descent).

Even more ironic is that some of this plan’s loudest critics, per the Times, are advocates for the mentally ill, who fear these people will not have the treatment they need outside of jail. (They will, according to Baca, and the most serious ones will not be sent home. There will be plenty of volunteers, and if they choose this, they’ll serve their full number of days at home, vs. a few days in jail.)

It’s this same group who wants Paris to be their spokesperson. Gee, if you asked her, which would she choose: jail or home confinement?

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