tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45828217067311189.post1713410123177620580..comments2023-09-29T12:44:34.834-04:00Comments on How Conservatives Drove Me Away: The Incarceration EpidemicJames Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10213045233649924060noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45828217067311189.post-40149351288008590612023-05-16T16:00:28.053-04:002023-05-16T16:00:28.053-04:00Hello mate nice bblogHello mate nice bblogChocolate Chip Cookie Recipeshttps://www.cookiepins.com/chocolate-chip-cookies/nutty_chocolate_chip_cookies_5591708693.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45828217067311189.post-19427559238758639482012-02-13T23:53:05.836-05:002012-02-13T23:53:05.836-05:00All that is easily solved by Larry Niven's met...All that is easily solved by Larry Niven's method. Then <i>lots</i> of people will care.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45828217067311189.post-25482184227890150262011-07-14T22:11:34.716-04:002011-07-14T22:11:34.716-04:00I've followed this for 20 years, and it's ...I've followed this for 20 years, and it's been a disaster-in-the-making for more then 30.<br /><br />It's one of the most vicious of vicious cycles.<br /><br />Our jails and prisons are filled to the brim with non-violent drug offenders serving mandatory sentences instituted during the early days of the War On Drugs. When, starting a few years into the mandatory-minimums craze, overcrowding necessitated reducing prison populations, dangerous people, who had been sentenced the old fashioned way and thus could be released, WERE being released left and right to make room for drug offenders. Many of these dangerous people, like Richard Allen Davis in California and Willie Horton in Massachusetts, committed further horrors after release, and became infamous. The public response is always the wrong one, though--"get tougher." Davis's kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas made her idiot father Marc a celebrity as the spokesman for still another mandatory minimum scheme--three-strikes-and-you're-out. After a few years of California using the law to lock up, for life, an incredible number of people for crimes of absolutely no consequence, Klaas denounced the law, but by then, it was too late. The press had already moved on, and much of the rest of the country had followed California over the same cliff.<br /><br />Prison overcrowding has been a serious problem for decades--practically every state has, at some point, been under court order to either reduce their populations or expand their prison capacity--and the big push to privatize prisons, starting in the '80s, has led to further perverse contributors to the cycle--in California, one of the most powerful lobbies is the prison-workers union, and they actively combat any effort to reduce the number of people in the clink.<br /><br />Our prisons, meanwhile are what Eddie Bunker accurately dubbed "monster machines." Practically any effort at rehabilitation has been abandoned in favor of "get tough"-ism. People go in who are nonviolent offenders and don't really belong there in the first place, then reemerge, years later, as hardened criminals--recidivism is terrible.<br /><br />No one cares.classicliberal2http://lefthooktheblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com