what (do you think) will happen to inmates if....

[vash]

..............the schit hits the fan. i mean if chaos happens. say mass hysteria takes over. you name it bird flu, we get invaded by another country,..whatever. they wouldnt throw the gates open, would they? sorry, just a hypothetical...

[WolfeMacleod]

Originally posted by vash
[B they wouldnt throw the gates open, would they? [/B]

Heck, Washington State just freed about 100 convicted felons. Why? Because we're reaching capacity.

[fastpat]

See New Orleans for the first week after Katrina.

[Superman]

Originally posted by WolfeMacleod
Heck, Washington State just freed about 100 convicted felons. Why? Because we're reaching capacity.

Yeah, the broadly supported "three strikes and you'r eout" initiative several years ago was a bad bad idea. It forced judges to lock up everyone who was caught selling weed twice. The people who knew what the voters did not know.....knew this day would come. Now we've got high-risk sex offenders (who like to rape and kill children) being freed early to make room for the greenbud entrepeneurs. As much as you guys seem to hate judges......I favor giving them some decisions to consider.

[fastpat]

Originally posted by Superman
Yeah, the broadly supported "three strikes and you'r eout" initiative several years ago was a bad bad idea. It forced judges to lock up everyone who was caught selling weed twice. The people who knew what the voters did not know.....knew this day would come. Now we've got high-risk sex offenders (who like to rape and kill children) being freed early to make room for the greenbud entrepeneurs. As much as you guys seem to hate judges......I favor giving them some decisions to consider.

Three Strikes legislation was a good idea written poorly. Most of us wanted at least the first two strikes to have been violent felonies, perhaps all three. The professional prison system employees got most of the laws written as "any three felonies" violent or not. That was and remains a bad idea.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by Superman
Yeah, the broadly supported "three strikes and you'r eout" initiative several years ago was a bad bad idea. It forced judges to lock up everyone who was caught selling weed twice. The people who knew what the voters did not know.....knew this day would come. Now we've got high-risk sex offenders (who like to rape and kill children) being freed early to make room for the greenbud entrepeneurs. As much as you guys seem to hate judges......I favor giving them some decisions to consider.

The other problem is that putting people like Supe mentioned above in prision is the worst thing you can do. Inside they then will learn real crime and come out worse than they ever were, which will hurt everyone more in the end.

[john70t]

Isn't it time, then, to de-criminalize marijuanna and keep those dollars working here in the US instead of building Columbian highrises?

Besides being a necessary medicine for many glaucoma/aids/cancer patients to maintain a quality of life, hemp also was a viable industrial product along the lines of corn, soybeans, and peanuts.
It was once used for the sails/rope/burlap sacks of the Mayflower, and it was once used for acid-free paper pulp.....our constitution is printed on it.

[cstreit]

Originally posted by vash
..............the schit hits the fan. i mean if chaos happens. say mass hysteria takes over. you name it bird flu, we get invaded by another country,..whatever. they wouldnt throw the gates open, would they? sorry, just a hypothetical...

Fast boat to a slow glacier?

[Rondinone]

Originally posted by fastpat
See New Orleans for the first week after Katrina.

Remind us what happened?

[vash]

the only thing that makes these people prisoners are the people that keep them there. imagine if all the guards need to get home to check on family, or come down sick. they may as well throw the doors open.

[Flatbutt1]

Originally posted by vash
they may as well throw the doors open.

do we all get target practice then?

[Moses]

Originally posted by fastpat
Three Strikes legislation was a good idea written poorly. Most of us wanted at least the first two strikes to have been violent felonies, perhaps all three. The professional prison system employees got most of the laws written as "any three felonies" violent or not. That was and remains a bad idea.

+1

[bivenator]

Originally posted by Rondinone
Remind us what happened?

When they came to Houston the murder rate increased, I think, 25 percent.

[red-beard]

33%, unfortunately.

Bi, you need a CHL!