If we had old-fashioned halfway houses, older ex-cons could be reintegrated into society. How do we fund them? Arrest the banksters who are still at large and liquidate their ill-gotten gains, including property and assets. Put that money into a Trust that pays the expenses of such halfway houses and vocational rehab.
If a 74-year-old man gets 15 for possessing $10 worth of drugs, then Jon Corzine should be in prison without parole AND his entire private possessions, including real estate, seized and sold to repay his victims.
Lloyd Blankfein, Vikram Pandit, Jamie Dimon, David Rockefeller, the Rothschild banksters, the Bush Crime Family, the Clintonistas, their armies of faceless enablers... we should have had a thousand French Revolutions and piles of dead elites by now!
But NO. We beat up the poor, the petty thieves, and pot heads. Don't feel too smug, petit bourgeoisie and bourgeois class. You're next to be sacrificed, for whatever benefit it may serve the Power Elites!
Can older inmates successfully return to society?
L.A. Times
2013/02/12 16:00:00
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A Los Angeles County judge responsible for reconsidering the life prison terms of more than 1,000 offenders sentenced under the state's three-strikes law began the process Monday at a hearing where he reduced the punishments for five inmates convicted of relatively minor crimes.
Among those given shorter sentences was a 74-year-old who has served more than 15 years for possessing $10 worth of drugs and an 81-year-old behind bars for more than 17 years for stealing dozens of packs of cigarettes.
The hearing came three months after voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which softened California's tough three-strikes law and allowed many inmates sentenced for non-serious and nonviolent offenses to ask for shorter prison terms. In Los Angeles County, the hearings are expected to continue through at least much of this year.
Among those given shorter sentences was a 74-year-old who has served more than 15 years for possessing $10 worth of drugs and an 81-year-old behind bars for more than 17 years for stealing dozens of packs of cigarettes.
The hearing came three months after voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, which softened California's tough three-strikes law and allowed many inmates sentenced for non-serious and nonviolent offenses to ask for shorter prison terms. In Los Angeles County, the hearings are expected to continue through at least much of this year.
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-three-stri...
Downey
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Finally! It does not seem to reduce the rate of crime.
Some things like pot possession shouldn't have been criminalized in the first place, so that should be one of the first things to be reconsidered and not just from the court end of things.
But such is life..
Goes back to my liberal, progressive, democratic socialist - national conservative cave.
If a 74-year-old man gets 15 for possessing $10 worth of drugs, then Jon Corzine should be in prison without parole AND his entire private possessions, including real estate, seized and sold to repay his victims.
Lloyd Blankfein, Vikram Pandit, Jamie Dimon, David Rockefeller, the Rothschild banksters, the Bush Crime Family, the Clintonistas, their armies of faceless enablers... we should have had a thousand French Revolutions and piles of dead elites by now!
But NO. We beat up the poor, the petty thieves, and pot heads. Don't feel too smug, petit bourgeoisie and bourgeois class. You're next to be sacrificed, for whatever benefit it may serve the Power Elites!
The Rothschilds are part of a tiny elite banking mafia, which includes some other very old money names, like the Rockefellers, duPonts, Warburgs, Windsor (Saxe-Coburg-Gothe). The more visible legates we're allowed to notice also run the Too-Big-Too-Fail banks i.e. Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Vikram Pandit, Ben Bernanke, and others in that caste.
The next caste down from them run the G7 governments, either in office or behind the scenes. The Bush Crime Family is such a family and they have many powerful associates who serve them. Including the Clintons, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kissinger, etc. They successfully orchestrate the massive hoax and fraud that makes us believe we are free and can democratically elect our President and Congress.