re: Nevada county will charge inmates for food and medical care

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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?

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Before we go any further, lets clarify the difference between a Jail and a Prison.

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Definitions
Jail: A place of detention; a place where a person convicted or suspected of a crime is detained.

Prison: A place of long-term confinement for those convicted of more serious crimes.

Difference
The most notable difference is that prison inmates have been tried and convicted of crimes, while those in jail may be awaiting trial. A prison is under the jurisdiction of either federal or state, while the jail holds people accused under federal, state, county and/or city laws. A jail holds inmates from two days up to one year.

Note that this definition only applies in the United States of America.

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The Elko County Commission on Wednesday approved Sheriff Jim Pitts' proposal to charge inmates $6 a day for meals, $10 for each doctor visit and $5 for initial booking into the jail, a move he says will save county taxpayers millions of dollars a year.

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1)People who are proven innocent are reimbursed for there time.


Question- If they are poor and can't pay, will the country make them starve.

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Those with no money would see their account accrue a negative balance, and that balance would remain in the event the inmate was released but later returned to jail for whatever reason.

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2) This article says doesn't seem to make a distinction between jail inmates and prison inmates.

I'm assuming it effects everyone who is ever arrested for anything anything that requires over 24hrs of detention is effected by this.

*I don't believe their are work programs for jailed inmates.

3) Medical Charges have been charged before as a copay in the jail system.

*This would really only be a problem if it effected the prison system.

4)Isn't the real problem, the fact we house to many dam people to begin with.

*We have the highest incarceration rate in the dam world by a mile.
-Contributors-
War on Drugs
High mandatory sentences
Prison privatization (Louisiana you are getting milked dry these guys. They are for profit)

Somehow ,despite the crime rate being much lower across the board compared to 30 years, we have more inmates than ever.

ABC News original Source Article

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Anytime someone skips school or whatever we should put them away for life. However, once we can get the liberal pansies out of office we need to push for the death penalty for those school skipping #$%$^#'s.

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Another typical loony left tactic.

Make up an absurd example and suggest that's what the Right would do in your feeble attempt to imply they are crazy.

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Another typical loony left tactic.

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I would suggest that I am more conservative than most on here.

That being said, I do not follow group think and spout off what the head conservatives tell me too.

When I agree with them, I say so. When I do not, I say that as well.

I was responding to the person I quoted that said he saw people skipping school and smoking weed go unpunished until they later killed someone.

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Before we go any further, lets clarify the difference between a Jail and a Prison.

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I used the term. "jail" generically to mean a place where convicted criminals are housed but since that is confusing you, I will use the term, "prison" from now on.

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Question- If they are poor and can't pay, will the country make them starve.

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Was the convicted thief who stole from a poor person concerned about their victim starving?

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4)Isn't the real problem, the fact we house to many dam people to begin with.

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No. The real problem is people like you who keep making excuses for convicted criminals who didn't give a damn about how their actions negatively effected the lives of their victims.

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Someone does not like freedom I see.

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What freedom are you talking about?

The freedom for criminals to keep victimizing innocent people?

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Well I guess we can just get rid of all laws.

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How about we get rid of the ones that tell me what I can and cannot put in my body.

I think we need laws to protect people like you from people like me. However, I do not think we need laws to protect people from themselves.

Kind of a conservative view point don't you think, while your wanting to protect me from my own poor decisions is more of a liberal position?

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I do not think we need laws to protect people from themselves.

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Kind of a conservative view point don't you think, while your wanting to protect me from my own poor decisions is more of a liberal position?

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So where do you draw the line, so let's get rid of banishment of lead based paint, what business is it of mine if you gnaw on your woodwork.

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Jbird

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If you don't want to partake of marijuana, please don't.

Why we should arrange society to stop a vice you don't like is beyond me.

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If you don't want to partake of marijuana, please don't.

Why we should arrange society to stop a vice you don't like is beyond me.

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How do you know that Jbird doesn't smoke weed?

Maybe that's why he calls himself Jbird.