At least four states in the U.S. have started to release inmates from their jails
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Isn't that great?
People are in prison for a reason. They can get COVID19 just as easily on the outside.
So . . . what difference does it make if they are incarcerated or what?
People are in prison for a reason. They can get COVID19 just as easily on the outside.
So . . . what difference does it make if they are incarcerated or what?
Just what Americans need at this time...a deadly virus spreading and far more CRIMINALS let out to play! If that wasn’t bad enough, they are keeping GUNS and AMMO from innocent citizens in many states now!! Holy hell! What are they thinking?
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Supposedly to reduce the number inside to help combat the virus. Only violent criminals will be accepted at the jail at this time. A warrant will be issued at a later date for non violent criminals. . . Sure if you can find them.
How to tell if they are concerned about the inmates? Are they releasing regardless of race???
If you are an "advantaged" white person in jail, they are going to hold on to you as long as they can to balance the numbers. If you are black, they want you out as soon as possible to keep the number balanced. YES, it does work that way. I have seen it a number of times where a white person who committed a lessor crime sits in jail while black the committed much more serious crimes come and go. This happens because the Judges (at least around here) invest in the private jails and need to protect their investments. White people with the funds to "buy" their way out, get out (they have to offset the potential loss to investors). Black get out automatically because the feds keep an to make sure the number balance.
(Sorry to get off subject. Just a sore spot for me.)
If you are an "advantaged" white person in jail, they are going to hold on to you as long as they can to balance the numbers. If you are black, they want you out as soon as possible to keep the number balanced. YES, it does work that way. I have seen it a number of times where a white person who committed a lessor crime sits in jail while black the committed much more serious crimes come and go. This happens because the Judges (at least around here) invest in the private jails and need to protect their investments. White people with the funds to "buy" their way out, get out (they have to offset the potential loss to investors). Black get out automatically because the feds keep an to make sure the number balance.
(Sorry to get off subject. Just a sore spot for me.)
Why would they do this? Seems like if they cut off outside visitors these lowlifes would have an advantage to the rest of society at the moment.
This may seem true on the surface, but I disagree with you.
A person may be so early in the disease that they test negative, get incarcerated, and then become contagious.
I always thought that technology could be used for better convict management.
It doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine a metal collar with a GPS inside it and a small amount of plastic explosive . . . something like Semtex or C-4..
If the convict steps outside of where he or she is supposed to be, then the collar detonates automatically.
This would save a considerable amount of money on infrastructure, guards, steel bars, etc.. This money could actually be used to provide the prisoners with food, healthcare, etc..
These collars could even be programmed with a timer, so it deactivates and falls off once the sentence is completed.
I don't think this idea is original with me, as I seem to vaguely remember seeing something like this in a science fiction movie at some point.
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Yah, it's been in more than one movie. Can't remember the names of them though.
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Hasn't been in many years. We're just not as bad as some other countries yet.
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I remember when...
Someone would say something stupid or something that was unpopular, or something that was politically incorrect, and people would say "Well it's a free country..."
Nobody says that anymore, because you can't say whatever you want anymore.
Someone would say something stupid or something that was unpopular, or something that was politically incorrect, and people would say "Well it's a free country..."
Nobody says that anymore, because you can't say whatever you want anymore.
I remember that too, but--just to offer a counter-argument--there are some things that are "more free" than in the past, and I sometimes wonder about rose-colored glasses.
As an example, when I was a paramedic (and because I'm autistic with a near editic memory), I made an intetesting discovery.
If a man (for example) is having a heart attack, I discovered--because I reviewed lots of run reports--that if his wife came with us, I could use smaller dosages of cardiac meds to accomplish certian things.
I assume that thos is because I may have known the patient for 5 minutes, while his wife may have been with him for 20 years, and she knows more about keeping him calm than I do.
I liked the idea of using smaller doses of intravenous heart meds because these meds are powerful, and a smaller dose means less of a chance of a bad reaction . . . and an ambulance doesn't have the same resources as a hospital to deal with a bad reaction to a powerful medication.
I expanded these ideas to include the other half of a gay or lesbian couple under the theory that a paramedic must be nonjudgmental, and should extend similar standards to similar patients under similar circumstances, and this landed me in trouble with the many religious hospitals here in Florida that are "faith-based".
If anyone doubts this, then consider the case of Lisa Pond and Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Basically, these lesbians were together for 18 years, and the hospital refused to allow the partner to visit the dying patient to say goodbye despite there being power-of-attorney paperwork in place.
This is because "Florida is an anti-gay state" per the social worker and charge nurse who were running the show.
I can't imagine anything like this happening now, as there would be lawsuits, protests, and so forth . . . and this is for the better.
No one could see that I was trying to follow an ethics statement that I signed off on to get my license, and that me treating patients equally wasn't an endorsement of the gay lifestyle.
I'm glad that no paramedic could be put in that position now.
