Posted on 02/12/2007 11:22:29 AM PST by B-Chan
Sheesh, it's hard to believe that any freepers could be this dense. I'd expect such utter lack of thought and real-world knowledge out of a moonbat crowd, but not a bunch of freepers!!!
"Don't violate the law"
And if you do, don't let them take you alive...
The part in bold may be one of the dumber things I've ever seen posted here.
Here in Georgia, we just had a man released from prison because DNA exonerated him from a rape conviction. He served 21 years. It does happen.
I remember a while back reading an account by a former guard at Angola State Prison in Louisiana (being interviewed anonymously) about the situation there in the Fifties and Sixties. The gist of it was that homosexual rape was a tool used by the prison administration to maintain control of the facilities. They were understaffed, and couldn't really control the behavior of largest, most aggressive inmates short of shooting them (which led to all sorts of uncomfortable state investigations and such), so to keep them quiescent they would arrange for "the blondest boy" out of the next load of inmates to be sent to their cell as a reward for the bad guy in question remaining relatively cooperative with the guards. Also, troublemakers were set up for it while the staff looked the other way - a situation that has also occurred in California at Corcoran State Prison as recently as two years ago (a well-publicized case).
The point is that it doesn't appear to be totally random - at well-run facilities, homosexual rape is virtually non-existent - but when it does happen the staff is frequently at fault - either through disinterest or as an active co-conspirator.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And they are justifying rape, which is still a crime the last time I checked. That is sick.
DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE, DOOFUS!!!!!
I also have a hard time feeling sorry for someone after their third DUI. So I really don't have any symphathy for the guy. My friend just lost her hubby to a drunk driver (4th DUI) in August 2006. Her hubby's was coming home from work after a 12 hour shift. They had 2 little boys and she was 5 months pregnant with their 3rd child. She is in her twenties and left to raise 3 kids under the age of 5 on her own. So I have a very hard time feeling sorry for a drunk drivers. She has my symphathy, her hubby was 100% innocent.
A black male in the United States has about a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison during his lifetime. For a Hispanic male, it's 1 in 6; for a white male, 1 in 17.
That's prison, mind you, not merely jail, like I was stuck in for a night.
Jail rates --- for everything from traffic tickets to MIP to being a material witness --- is much higher --- I do not recall the numbers but far in excess of 50% --- I think 75% --- of U.S. males will have been in jail at least once in their lives.
So, yes, that qualifies as "very easy."
While you don't apparently care about these people, 95 percent of all inmates are eventually released. Upon release, male prisoner rape survivors bring with them a lot of baggage that makes them much more likely to be violent upon release.
So, if nothing else, care to protect your own ass.
Exactly. It is not a job a normal, sane person would want, which is why the prisons end up employing so many who are callous or downright sadistic.
Wow. I really have to disagree. It's an injustice for cops to administer gratuitous beatings. It's injustice for guards to ignore criminal behavior in jail.
We've made pretty good strides in creating more professional cops. We ought to do the same thing with prison guards.
A LOT of people want this job.
Well, so far we have a the border patrol agents, someobody else guessed that a percentage of males in prison are innocent and we have your one guy. That's a long way from "it's very easy......".
I don't agree that it's "very easy" for 100% innocent people to "end up in the slammer". If I believed that I'd be pretty incensed and very active to get all these innocent people freed. Is is possible for innocent people to be jailed? Yep! Is it "very easy"? Nope. If it was most people in jail would be innocent. Again, it was a dumb thing to say.
We had a guy like that in Louisiana had been in prison since the early 80's and was exonerated through DNA evidence. My heart goes out to folks like that spending all that time in prison for a crime you didn't commit. Thank goodness for DNA.
We had a guy like that in Louisiana had been in prison since the early 80's and was exonerated through DNA evidence. My heart goes out to folks like that spending all that time in prison for a crime you didn't commit. I just think if it wasn't for the DNA these guys would have never got out. Some of those guys had exhausted most of their appeals before they were cleared by DNA evidence.
Prove that.
You are very wrong.
I was on a jury last week that aquitted a man charged with "domestic battery", all on the account of his angry crazy ex-wife trying to exact revenge. That was a Class A misdemeanor with the possibility of jail time, and I'm glad to say I helped spare him his ex's revenge.
He was only caught for the third time. No doubt he drove intoxicated countless times more.
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