Comments on: States ponder early release for prisoners

By: dose the gov care

dose the gov care — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:39:59 +0000

honest lt the gov dn,t care this low offenders its all about the money and what they get out of it like child support has the gov takes them away from there kids who suffers not the mother or father cus that year the father was locked up the child has to learn the father all over again maybe the gov shud do there job and support these kids not the battle between to parents…or this jail over crowding the gov caused it them selves let them out all low affenders ….set them FREE

By: Radical Russ

Radical Russ — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:41:13 +0000

Actually, 21% of our readers don’t use cannabis at all. At least according to Poll #31, which asked if people were tokers, smokers, or drinkers. Out of 650 responses, 28 used none of those substances, 19 only drank, 5 only smoked, and 87 both drank and smoked. 35% use only cannabis and no booze or tobacco.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:53:40 +0000

W hat a shame that probably 99% of the people who read this are pot smokers. Everyone should know about these stories. Non-violent crimes hurting (hurting who? how?)nobody. Hurting families by fining and imprisoning nice folk who might have been doctors, or auto mechanics, or YOU or YOUR SONS and DAUGHTERS!

By: Peggy Stafford

Peggy Stafford — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:01:00 +0000

I read with extreme interest the article in Parade Magazine titled “WHY WE MUST FIX OUR PRISONS”.

My grandson (age 29) has been sentenced to 9 months in prison recently. While I do not condone what he has done I feel his punishment was completely unreasonable. He has worked for 10 years for one company since graduating from high school and was 2 semesters away from an associates degree in Industrial Maintenance earned by taking night classes.

I feel this will completely ruin his life as far as ever getting a job and his self-esteem back.

This has been a complete shock to our family. We would be more than willing to house him in our home on house arrest and take him to whatever he was required to do.

Even though it may not help my grandson, what can I do to help this cause. It is true too many young mens lives are being ruined by this antiquated system.

By: amie wiedorfer

amie wiedorfer — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:03:49 +0000

my boyfriend is currently serving a sentence in Florida. Prisons are so crowded. he has 72 people in his small dorm. sharing beds and everything. he is a non-violent offender who has a family waiting for his return. he will never return to prison once released. i have to send him money every week for him to simply survive. i would rather spend that money on fees for house arrest or supervision. he is a good person who made a silly mistake, as did thousand others. releasing them would save the state millions in their budget. I really don’t understand a state that is willing to spend more tax dollars on prisons and corrections than education. Charlie Crist (governer of Florida) says that Florida needs more prisons, but what they have is a failing education system. Maybe if he invested that money on education, Florida wouldn’t need the prisons in the first place. he has it backwards.

By: Deborah Glazner

Deborah Glazner — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:38:05 +0000

If you place prisoners with non-violent crimes on house arrest or give them work duty, then think of the money that would be saved by tax payers.

By: Ann Farmer

Ann Farmer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:38:39 +0000

I agree with Miss. Glazner that it would be a good idea to let inmates who less time left to serve out and put them on house arrest or something of that nature with families who are willing to house them.Our econimy is sinking too fast to keep waisting taxpayers dollars.Besides what’s the punishment for all these prisoners if we the hard working people of america are paying for their crimes.In all reality people like me,a good hard working single mother,are paying for criminals to have three hot free meals a day and a free place to live now whats the punishment for that.Let them out put them to work for meer dollars a day,give them some responsibility,let them earn back there rights and stop making us,the people,pay for them.This country is in a great suffering this would be a start and a start is what we need to succeed.

By: Cheryl Butler

Cheryl Butler — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:05:06 +0000

Alllll that wasted money for PRISONS just for “housing”/holding.. people for
years and years and years….while all threw out the years no money for our childrens school books or new schools…

It’s a Shame and a Waste all the tax payers dollars used just for holding bodies in prison…
Let people out! many of them have families that love them and would “house” them…without us all paying tax payer dollars….so I think that it really is a excellent idea Patterson and other Gov’s have.

By: Deborah Glazner

Deborah Glazner — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:30:51 +0000

Here’s another idea. How about the prisoners like my son who has only a few months left, place them on house arrest? It would cut down on the money the State has to spend out to house them.