Posted on 01/21/2013 3:59:16 AM PST by lowbridge
I have only been living in Michigan for the past 7 years - in that time, I have noticed prisons closing right and left. WHY ??? Don’t tell me it’s the budget because that’s bulldukey. If the State has any duty to its citizens, it is to keep dangerous people locked up. Who let this happen? Couldn’t have been all Granholm’s fault, could it? If so, why isn’t the current leader of our State doing something about it?
We currently have more than 40 operating prisons in Michigan after the closures. This listing isn’t complete.
http://www.michigan.gov/corrections/0,4551,7-119-1381_1385-—,00.html
Personally I think we have too many prisons and a poor record of paroling the wrong prisoners. After all, Granholm had deals with CA. and PA. to import inmates to Michigan.
There is no justification for putting bad people who have proven they’re unfixable back into Society. Change whatever needs to be changed to deal with that. I don’t know how many prisons Michigan needs, but something’s gotta give. The Rule of Law is going down the rathole.
ONE .22 round might not have much knockdown power,
but you can put 5-10 of them into a “target” fairly quickly.
Given the circumstances, I would have felt pretty good ridding the world of this garbage. How old were you when you realized that some men need hanging? How old will your child need to be to realize this?
In retrospect, yes. But I think it is not uncommon for a pair of criminals to use a ruse such as this to gain entrance to a house. It's a judgement call which I hope the boy made consciously, having been forewarned of such a possibility.
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