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Do Children Have a “Right to Hug” Their Parents?
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:06 pm
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Hundreds of counties around the country have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits.
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In 2012, a company called Securus Technologies struck a deal with the county, offering financial incentives to replace jail visits with video calls. Families would pay fees that could exceed a dollar a minute to see their loved ones on an often grainy video feed; the county would earn a cut of the profits. “A lot of people will swipe that Mastercard and visit their grandkids,” a county official told the press at the time.
A few years later, the county went after an even steeper commission. In the sheriff’s office, a captain named Jason Gould helped negotiate a deal with a Securus competitor called Global Tel*Link (or GTL, now known as ViaPath), which included a fixed commission of a hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year, plus a sixty-thousand-dollar annual “technology grant,” and twenty per cent of the revenue from video calls. The jail chose not to restore families’ access to in-person visits. To celebrate the deal, an undersheriff joked to Gould, by e-mail, “You are not Captain Gold for nothing!”
County sheriffs across the country were making similar deals with Securus and GTL, which resulted in millions of dollars in commissions. Many of those counties replaced in-person visits with the companies’ video calls. I first encountered such an arrangement in 2019, when I joined a family friend on a visit to the Skagit County Jail, in Washington State, where her son had recently awaited trial. Instead of holding her son’s hand or sharing a meal with him, she’d deposited funds at a Securus kiosk, using a screen that read, across the top, “Send money here.” (The jail, like most others, also offers the option of conducting video calls at home, from a personal device. Some jails provide a small number of free video visits, although families described those as hard to schedule.) At the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, I worked with my colleague Eliza Fawcett to identify more than a hundred jails in thirty-six states which have replaced in-person visits with video calls. The Prison Policy Initiative calculates that hundreds more jails have done the same.
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Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:07 pm to 4cubbies
Should have thought about that prior to dealing drugs, stealing, gang banging and murdering.
Do the crime do the time.
Do the crime do the time.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:08 pm to 4cubbies
The American penal system is a corrupt joke
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:09 pm to Damone
It wouldn’t exist but for criminals.
It would go away as soon as they do.
It would go away as soon as they do.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:10 pm to 4cubbies
NO !
Commit crimes you lose your freedom. They made the choice to commit the crime and thus their family suffers. You lefties are so damn gullible. 95% of these criminals DGAF about their children while they're on the streets banging/doping/committing crimes. No sympathy from me.
Commit crimes you lose your freedom. They made the choice to commit the crime and thus their family suffers. You lefties are so damn gullible. 95% of these criminals DGAF about their children while they're on the streets banging/doping/committing crimes. No sympathy from me.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:10 pm to 4cubbies
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Do Children Have a “Right to Hug” Their Parents?
You mean do criminals have a right to hug someone?
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:13 pm to roadGator
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Do the crime do the time.
Most people who are incarcerated in Louisiana haven’t been convicted. They are held in pre-trial detention.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:14 pm to 4cubbies
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Most people who are incarcerated in Louisiana haven’t been convicted.
Most? What percentage exactly?
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:18 pm to 4cubbies
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Most people who are incarcerated in Louisiana haven’t been convicted. They are held in pre-trial detention.
They should bail out then.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:18 pm to roadGator
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It wouldn’t exist but for criminals.
“Criminal” implies guilt. Most of the people incarcerated in Louisiana haven’t been convicted.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:20 pm to auggie
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They should bail out then.
The median bail amount in Louisiana is $24,000.
The median annual income in Louisiana is $27,027.
This post was edited on 5/19/24 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:23 pm to 4cubbies
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The median bail amount in Louisiana is $24,000.
You pay a bondsman 10% or get someone with property who trusts you, to sign your bond.
This post was edited on 5/19/24 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:27 pm to auggie
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You pay a bondsman 10% or get someone with property who trusts you, to sign your bond.
Would you loan someone with an annual salary of $27k a couple thousand bucks to bail out a loved one?
Do you expect someone with that income to own property?
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:28 pm to 4cubbies
Just a quick glance at your link I do not see the specific number stating most of them are not convicted and awaiting trial. Out of the 28,837 in your link how many have already been convicted and how many are awaiting trial?
There are quite a few in local jails. Probably more than you realize.
In the Beauregard Parish jail a friend of mine who works there was telling me they have 3 blocks and one of the blocks is full of convicted criminals including a few murderers due to the state not having room. Unless I missed it, your link mentions no specifics of such circumstances.
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While there are some special situations that would result in a convict remaining in a local jail, the vast majority of individuals convicted of charges are transferred to state prisons.
There are quite a few in local jails. Probably more than you realize.
In the Beauregard Parish jail a friend of mine who works there was telling me they have 3 blocks and one of the blocks is full of convicted criminals including a few murderers due to the state not having room. Unless I missed it, your link mentions no specifics of such circumstances.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:30 pm to 4cubbies
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Would you loan someone with an annual salary of $27k a couple thousand bucks to bail out a loved one?
I bet those same people have the latest iPhone, though
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:32 pm to stout
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Just a quick glance at your link I do not see the specific number stating most of them are not convicted and awaiting trial.
Do you know the difference between a jail and a prison? That will explain things for you.
quote:Every parish has one.
There are quite a few in local jails. Probably more than you realize.
quote:. Lucky for us, you’re able to provide anecdotal evidence that supports your views.
Unless I missed it, your link mentions no specifics of such circumstances.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:32 pm to 4cubbies
While rehabilitation as a definitive answer has not worked, it’s wrong and in advisable to take away more humanity and in many instances, the only positive influences to many prisoners.
Prisons whether operated by the Government or private, are often looking at the wrong metrics when measuring success
Prisons whether operated by the Government or private, are often looking at the wrong metrics when measuring success
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:35 pm to 4cubbies
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Would you loan someone with an annual salary of $27k a couple thousand bucks to bail out a loved one?
Do you expect someone with that income to own property?
These are all things that reasonable people should consider, before getting themselves arrested.
" If I get my arse in jail, how do I get bonded out?"
Posted on 5/19/24 at 2:36 pm to TROLA
quote:where has it been tried in Louisiana? What exactly hasn’t worked?
While rehabilitation as a definitive answer has not worked,
quote:I agree with this.
it’s wrong and in advisable to take away more humanity and in many instances, the only positive influences to many prisoners.
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