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2013-05-06 Government

Federal Prisons Plan to Release More Inmates on 'Compassionate' Grounds

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Posted by Fred 2013-05-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world. At year-end 2009, it was 743 adults incarcerated per 100,000 population.

It is costing a lot of money to keep them in jail. A better solution is to experiment with other forms of penalties like fines, home arrest and internal exile.

Posted by Bernard Z 2013-05-06 07:50|| 2013-05-06 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 home arrest and internal exile
They can't leave their bodies?

Posted by Skidmark 2013-05-06 08:18|| 2013-05-06 08:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Shouldn't release the low level offenders, but permanently remove the high end offenders to make room. You know a lot of the low level will be politicians. Of course they want a precedent. Cost per day for Supermax vs cost per day for trustee level. A nation that yawns to the butchery of a Gosnell, should have no problem with removing real threats to its citizens and society.

Prisons, where in the most secure police state government has to offer, there are still assaults, murders and rapes...just no freedoms.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-05-06 09:12|| 2013-05-06 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 A recent article quoted a prison psychologist as saying 1/4 of the prisoners in medium security prisons are sociopaths.

Given the percent of social predators that will be released, we should be concerned about who is being "compassionate" here.

Posted by Frozen Al 2013-05-06 10:07|| 2013-05-06 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a good thing we have laws against released or probationary felons being able to have guns, or else all these new gun control laws restricting the law abiding citizens would really hurt.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-06 12:53|| 2013-05-06 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 So the prison doesn't have to pay for their heart transplants and chemotherapy. But now ObamaCare will pay so we really won't save any money.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-05-06 13:14|| 2013-05-06 13:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Just start with the dopers and not the psycho killers this time, ok?

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-05-06 16:39|| 2013-05-06 16:39|| Front Page Top

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