Comments on: CRIMINAL JUSTICE III: Catch and Release Prisons

By: directory

directory — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:48:40 +0000

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By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:16:31 +0000

Actually, the Deomocrats knew who had the right to authorize war and who had the right to provide funding for the contras. Mining harbors in Nicaragua was an act of war. It was illegal, period. Having a rogue operation in the White House making an end run around the law was illegal, period. Since youÃ‚Â´re on who always waxes rhapsodic about the value of obeying the law, you should either be offended or acknowledge your hypocrisy.

As for your claim that Reagan knew nothing, how you can claim Reagan brought respect back to the White House while being completely oblivious about rogue operations taking place under his Director of NSC (Poindexter) and his chief subordinate (North) shows little more about anything than your own moral obtuseness.

By: Woody

Woody — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:02:13 +0000

The Democrats, if they had any sense of right and wrong, should be ashamed for backing communists and abandoning freedom fighters in central America simply for political and ideological reasons.

No, Reagan knew nothing. Oliver North made that clear.

By: Randy Paul

Randy Paul — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:35:58 +0000

rlc, it wasnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t about business casual day when I wrote about Reagan. It was about the respect that Reagan showed for the Office of the President and the Oval Office itself by insisting on the decorum of wearing suits thereÃ¢â‚¬â€œunlike someone else who dropped his pants there and thought that the best place to cure cigar tobacco was inside an intern. Certainly Reagan wouldnÃ‚Â´t do something like, say, sell weapons to terrorists in order to finance a pet project war that Congress refused to fund. HeÃ‚Â´d have too much respect for the role of checks and balances in our government to do something like this and then claim that he couldnÃ‚Â´t remember anything about it, would he? Or perhaps not. There are suits and there are empty suits.

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:31:55 +0000

Jerry, if the prisons are revolving doors, then people are less afraid. Suppose we adopted the Islamic way and cut off hands of theives, hung homosexuals, and stoned adulterers. Do you think that punishment would be a deterrent then? What if we had public hangings? Of course, what you don’t know is how many crimes were avoided because of the fear of prison.

rlc, it wasn’t about business casual day when I wrote about Reagan. It was about the respect that Reagan showed for the Office of the President and the Oval Office itself by insisting on the decorum of wearing suits there–unlike someone else who dropped his pants there and thought that the best place to cure cigar tobacco was inside an intern.

By: richard locicero

richard locicero — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:41:11 +0000

Woody justs like to recite what he hears on talk radio or from his Republican talking points. On another site he praised Reaagan ’cause everyone came to work in a suit! What a moron!

By: Jerry Jarvis

Jerry Jarvis — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:37:47 +0000

@Woody, if prisons are a deterrent to crime why do we have 171,000 people plus in this state that don’t believe that? Thats like saying the death penalty deters homicide. There is close to 700 people on death roll right now that wasn’t deterred.

By: Barbara Brooks

Barbara Brooks — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:48:32 +0000

Jeanne Woodford was the most contemporary, innovative and creative warden in California.

My son, who is at San Quentin owes a debt of gratitude to her for bringing in hundreds of volunteer programs, including volunteers teaching college courses. He will be able to get an Associate degree rather than languishing in prison for at least 25 years for a non-violent offense, based on the CA 3-Strikes law. He is so proud that he is making all A’s. It makes him feel good about himself, even though there are some who cannot get beyond the ‘punishment only’ thinking.

There is no cost to the taxpayers for these programs, because they are all volunteer and non-profit.

My son also always works at some job inside, sometimes with no pay, sometimes at .08cents an hour. Slave labor for sure. But he is able to set goals for himself and look to the future. By the way, he also reads his Bible, and attends chapel. But I don’t know if it would come under the approval of Woody, a previous commenter.

Prisoners, families and the CDCR lost a good thing when Ms. Woodford left, but I’m glad she is still working within the system. She has too much to offer to a very thirsty system to let her go…

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:59:34 +0000

Prisons are about punishment, the threat of which deters crime, and protecting society from criminals.

I’m not against rehab, but some people will never be good, and it’s not the fault of their families, schools, or the prisons, and it’s not necessarily the job of the prisons. Some people are just rotten and evil.

Rehab was not the original and intended function of prisons, and maybe they aren’t the best place for that.

Make ‘em go to church–the ones of which I approve.