Posted on 10/29/2005 10:27:17 PM PDT by Coleus
Cop-killer transsexual Leslie Ann Nelson was honored as an Inmate of the Month during a recent ceremony in which she received a certificate, a hug and a special lunch, infuriating a statewide police organization that represents nearly 30,000 officers.
"The idea that our state would award a vicious and cold-blooded murderer like Leslie Ann Nelson is both outrageous and disgusting," said state Policemen's Benevolent Association President Michael J. Madonna, who yesterday called for the New Jersey Department of Corrections to end the Inmate of the Month award and for the warden at Nelson's prison to step down.
The award also drew the ire of the widow of a state trooper whose death led to sweeping changes in the way police conduct traffic stops.
"As they pat him -- or her-- on the back, they slap the families of who he killed," said Donna Lamonaco of Belvidere, Warren County, whose husband, Phil, was gunned down by fugitives as he made a vehicle stop on Route 80 in Knowlton Township 24 years ago. "It makes me sick, and I am not sitting idle."
Nelson, 48, a transsexual go-go dancer whose name was Glenn Nelson before a sex-change operation at age 34, was convicted of killing Camden County law enforcement officers John McLaughlin and John Norcross during a 1995 standoff in Haddon Heights.
She was removed from death row, but has an upcoming death-penalty trial in which she wants to represent herself. Juries have twice decided she should die, and twice those sentences were overturned by the state Supreme Court.
Nelson is an inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, Hunterdon County, where she works as a paralegal in the law library and teaches other inmates how to read.
Department of Corrections spokesman Matt Schuman said 120 of the inmate
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That's disgusting.
It's more what he takes off.
"IT" ...shouldn't have made it to jail in the first place.
"It't not the police's job, according to the USSC, to protect us in any event."
Wrong again. They are not required to protect individuals (clearly they can not be everwhere they might be needed) but they have a duty to protect the society in general (they try to get the bad guys). Otherwise, you could get police protection whenever you desired it. No town/city can cater to the needs of every citizen at every moment.
Why is he/she/it still alive. All cop killers should be executed immediately after trial. Sounds like she passed go and is collecting $200..
That's enough I don't think I can read anymore.
You lose.
Armed robbery at work, thirteen years ago. I was the lucky girl who approached the criminal as if he were any other customer and said "May I help you?", so I was the one who got to clean out the cash register with a gun in my face.
Yes, we gals in retail are magnets for that sort of thing.
It's how he was born. It is what his genes still say.
Well until you can field your own private army to keep thieves, frauds, rapists, and killers at bay, you might cut the kopz a LITTLE slack there.
OK, she was the huggee. Who was the huggor?
Thomas Trantino was sentenced to death for murdering two police officers.
The death penalty was overturned by the USSC.
Trantino's sentence was converted to life.
Trantino was released from prison a few years ago and was working in the lunchroom of a Hunterdon County high school.
Yet the uniformed officers continue to support democrat candidates for Governor.
Evidently a few more dollars thrown their way is more important than the issues of law and order.
Generalizations like that earn you nothing. If you can't bring some facts to the table, keep your mouth shut.
Please explain your sources for these assertions. I understand your logic on this, but I think your source of information is bad.
I looked into this once and came up with a ratio of about two cops killed by criminals for each innocent person killed by cops.
I believe that your assertion that a person is far more likely to have a cop point a gun at them than a criminal is wrong as well. It might be correct in certain jurisdictions, or for certain groups, but overall... I don't see any evidence to support that contention.
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This freak should most certainly not be rewarded for behaving well in prison. Such behavior should be an expectation, and the prison authorities should have the power to impose it by any means necessary"
Hopefully this particular individual will finally be successfully sentenced to death in his third trial.
But stepping back from him as an individual, there are three good reason for a reward based system in prisons.
1. It makes the prison safer - safer for the guards, safer for the weaker inmates - this lowers heath care costs and insurance cost and makes it easier to retain good guards. Without this increased safety you have to go to a supermax type environment that is VERY expensive.
2. Many of these people get out of prison, most people are in prison for drugs or non-capital crimes. A reward system is an opportunity to influence their behavior beyond simple forced obedience through fear.
3. Some of them will never get out. That makes small rewards critical to their behavior. Not only does effect safety as above, but these types interact with those prisoners who will get out and indirectly they still effect society.
"I don't believe you. Two times huh? Where the H3LL do you live, and who do you hang out with? You must be a magnet for at temped murders...
I bet you won't find ones other person on this thread who has has a gun pointed at them by a criminal even once. Sure it wasn't 5 times?"
I've had a gun in my face once. I was doing onsite computer network maintenance and finished up late at night in an industrial area and stopped at a pay phone (20 years ago before I had a cell phone).
I'm lucky it never happened again but if it happened once to me it could happen twice.
In post 57 I talked about this - basically the answer isn't "to be nice to the inmates" but rather because it benefits society in various ways.
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