Posted on 04/02/2009 7:01:24 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty wants to help balance the District's recession-squeezed budget by allowing as many as 80 percent of the city's inmates to qualify for early release, borrowing a tactic that has stirred controversy elsewhere in the nation.
The city hopes to save $4.4 million in fiscal 2010 under the plan, which would reduce the prison population by 2 percent from its current daily average of 3,000 inmates.
Current law permits sentenced inmates to earn up to five days off their sentences each month by completing specified academic and vocational programs. The new proposal would extend the program to pretrial inmates and allow them to earn time off simply by participating in the programs.
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I wouldn't take one even if they paid me.
They ought to be right at home with the rest of the criminals in D.C., especially that group of 535.
Got that right. The real criminals work for the government. Nothing that the thugs behind bars did can compete with what the thugs on our payroll are doing to our country, our families, our futures.
A place with a mayor this dumb doesn’t deserve voting representation in Congress.
Maybe he could release all the inmates-and lock up the law-abiding citizens in the prison for their own safety......They would probably amount to 10% of the total population, so....
1. Overcrowding in prison-solved
2. Reducing the per-inmate cost-solved
Man, running things the lib way is easy.....
I would like to see the Marricopa County Sherrif promoted to the corresponding federal position that would allow him to run all federal prisons.
If that man lobbied for $1 Billion to build a federal Tent City in remote West Texas, I would be honored to spend it as long as he ran it. It would be money well spent IMO.
I am dreaming about a 1 million inmate capacity of about 1 square mile. An electrical substation, a water tower, a wall with guard towers, maybe a sanitation facility, a kitchen and admin building and a whole lot of tents.
I could see an expansion option to build some factories and start a manufacturing industry for prisoners to work in to offset the costs of running the facility.
End the drug war in D.C. Tax it. Save the prison system and a legion of black men from a life branded as a criminal for smoking a fatty.
Amen
Free inmates=more gun related crime=confiscate guns from law abiding citizens
E-mails, letters and even calling do not seem to matter anymore to the people we elected to represent us in Congress.
Here’s a thought: when Congress was busy huffing and puffing about those evil AIG bonuses, no one gave it a second thought when the thuggish ACORN rent-a-mob went on a bus tour of AIG employees’ homes.
So, what if someone were to create a database containing all the HOME addresses of these professional thieves in Congress (both their D.C. and state home addresses) and distribute it widely across the internet?
A few peaceful public gatherings at their ritzy D.C. townhomes and gated estates might make them think twice as they continue to tax us and our children into a banana republic-style poverty.
Making DC an even bigger sh#thole than it already is.
Yeah, this plan works well, just ask the relatives of the 4 dead Oakland police officers who were shot by that a**hat out on parole.
I’m guessing Kristinn knows some of those addresses. However, it might be more effective to know where their home state address is - where the family lives.
How many recidivists will it take to make up that 4.4 million dollars in new police work, new trial costs and reincarceration?
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