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<blockquote data-quote="slick4591" data-source="post: 927291" data-attributes="member: 16503"><p>Jo, you're on the right track. When it's legislated that persons in authority are responsible for the decisions they make, then you'll see some changes within the criminal justice system. All you gotta do is make the sheriff bear some responsibility if he has handed out 3 for 1's and some one receiving the credit committed an offense when he would have been in jail under the straight time sentence. Same with parole.</p><p></p><p>We already know that jail is not a rehabilitator, just like the death penalty is not a real deterrent. It was thought that both had a role in the CJS many years ago, but the only thing jail does is make "some" people not want to go back. The others consider it as part of doing business and will repeat again and again. The death penalty has been watered down to the point that it will never be effective.</p><p></p><p>But when you look at it from the other direction you can see that financially the CJS spends much more than it receives. A few years back there were several Texas counties that ran out of money to house inmates. You had bureaucrats telling them that they couldn't have inmates sleeping on the floor, but they had no more space to house them. Those counties then turned to privatized jails because the costs were lower than building new facilities. The old work farms are now on a voluntary basis and the motivation is an earlier release or I might suggest those as an option. The system is nothing more than one big rotating circle jerk.</p><p></p><p>I'll agree that when it's time to hand out penalties the playing field is far from level. I'm really sorry to know that happened to your Dad and wished the system had worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slick4591, post: 927291, member: 16503"] Jo, you're on the right track. When it's legislated that persons in authority are responsible for the decisions they make, then you'll see some changes within the criminal justice system. All you gotta do is make the sheriff bear some responsibility if he has handed out 3 for 1's and some one receiving the credit committed an offense when he would have been in jail under the straight time sentence. Same with parole. We already know that jail is not a rehabilitator, just like the death penalty is not a real deterrent. It was thought that both had a role in the CJS many years ago, but the only thing jail does is make "some" people not want to go back. The others consider it as part of doing business and will repeat again and again. The death penalty has been watered down to the point that it will never be effective. But when you look at it from the other direction you can see that financially the CJS spends much more than it receives. A few years back there were several Texas counties that ran out of money to house inmates. You had bureaucrats telling them that they couldn't have inmates sleeping on the floor, but they had no more space to house them. Those counties then turned to privatized jails because the costs were lower than building new facilities. The old work farms are now on a voluntary basis and the motivation is an earlier release or I might suggest those as an option. The system is nothing more than one big rotating circle jerk. I'll agree that when it's time to hand out penalties the playing field is far from level. I'm really sorry to know that happened to your Dad and wished the system had worked. [/QUOTE]
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