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Nevada county will charge inmates for food and medical care
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:15 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:15 am
How horrible.
The inmates no longer have access to their good paying jobs as drug dealers, thieves, pimps, prostitutes, etc. so some on the loony left are upset that a Nevada county is going to make them pay for their own meals and medical care.
The inmates no longer have access to their good paying jobs as drug dealers, thieves, pimps, prostitutes, etc. so some on the loony left are upset that a Nevada county is going to make them pay for their own meals and medical care.
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 10:16 am
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Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:17 am to DawgfaninCa
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The inmates no longer have access to their good paying jobs as drug dealers, thieves, pimps, prostitutes, etc
A lot of people in jail are simple marijuana possesion, as such, your indignation seems cruel.
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Nevada county is going to make them pay for their own meals and medical care.
With what money? Will they let people starve?
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 10:17 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:18 am to MagicCityBlazer
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With what money? Will they let people starve?
Prisoners get paid a very small wage for work they perform behind bars.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:22 am to DawgfaninCa
this is one of the cases where i am glad the ACLU exist.. once the ACLU drags them to court and it cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars for some dumbass trying to make a political point.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:22 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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Prisoners get paid a very small wage for work they perform behind bars.
From what I understand that is around a quarter an hour.
They are literally wage-slaves.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:25 am to DawgfaninCa
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Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:27 am to DawgfaninCa
Will cost the county money to defend an unconstitutional program. What a waste of money.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:27 am to Teddy Ruxpin
The article says that prisoners who get jobs are exempt from paying the fees.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:28 am to DawgfaninCa
if they really wanted to lower their incarceration costs, they could just legalize drugs.
Arrests would approach zero. And then they could get rid of the sheriff all together. Saving big $$
Arrests would approach zero. And then they could get rid of the sheriff all together. Saving big $$
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:29 am to MagicCityBlazer
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A lot of people in jail are simple marijuana possesion
uh no, no they're not
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:33 am to lsuroadie
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uh no, no they're not
Not quite:
A lot of nonviolent offenders are in jail, as such I should have said 'nonviolent marijuana offenders' instead of simple possession.
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in the sense that, certainly, in the federal system, about one out of every six federal inmates is in federal prison for marijuana. That's a very large number. There are more people now in federal prison for marijuana offenses than for violent offenses.
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Most of them are marijuana growers and marijuana dealers, although there are instances of people being put away for remarkably small amounts of marijuana. I've come across more than one case of people getting life without parole for a joint or for less than a joint. They tend to be habitual offenders and that's their third strike, but that's still a very severe punishment for possessing a joint.
When I started looking into the war on marijuana, I was struck by how similar it was in a lot of its internal dynamics to the McCarthy era witchhunts, which I had studied in college. And the deep unreason to it and the hysteria surrounding it seemed very similar. And what concerned me most was how it seemed like another scapegoating. This country traditionally has gone thorough periods of intolerance where we look for scapegoats blame scapegoats and avoid dealing with our real problems.
And the war on marijuana seemed like a classic example of that national tendency. So the question that I address myself to in the articles I've written is how does society come to punish a person more harshly for selling marijuana than for killing somebody with a gun?
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Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:35 am to FalseProphet
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The article says that prisoners who get jobs are exempt from paying the fees.
Still pretty sure that won't pass an 8th Amendment challenge
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:36 am to MagicCityBlazer
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From what I understand that is around a quarter an hour.
They are literally wage-slaves.
and?
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:36 am to MagicCityBlazer
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A lot of people in jail are simple marijuana possesion, as such, your indignation seems cruel.
A lot of people in jail are cruel and have no compassion for their victims. I have compassion for their victims not them.
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Will they let people starve?
Why don't you ask the thieves who are in jail that question?
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:37 am to Choctaw
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and?
Ah, obviously you don't mind slavery.
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A lot of people in jail are cruel and have no compassion for their victims. I have compassion for their victims not them.
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Nonviolent offenders are 60% of our prison population
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 10:39 am
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:38 am to Hawkeye95
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Arrests would approach zero
and we'll all ride around on unicorns, eating rainbows and snorting pixie dust
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:39 am to MagicCityBlazer
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Most of them are marijuana growers and marijuana dealers
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They tend to be habitual offenders and that's their third strike
like I said. no, no they're not
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:39 am to MagicCityBlazer
quote:Yep and Joe Arpaio.
Ah, obviously you don't mind slavery.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:39 am to MagicCityBlazer
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Ah, obviously you don't mind slavery.
i don't mind prisoners being put to work. perhaps you should read a book and learn what slavery actually is.
Posted on 2/12/14 at 10:40 am to lsuroadie
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like I said. no, no they're not
So, are you okay with sending a human being to jail for the rest of its life for a third offense of plant possession?
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i don't mind prisoners being put to work. perhaps you should read a book and learn what slavery actually is.
Ahh. Whatever. If you don't want the people in jail to be treated like people, thats fine. Don't trouble me if someone you know or love needs compassion in prison.
This post was edited on 2/12/14 at 10:42 am
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