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The Pew Center on the States recently conducted a study where more than one in 100 Americans are incarcerated – which has tremendous impact on any state budget, especially South Carolina, whose Department of Corrections has been running a budget deficit for several years. We look at these issues facing the Dept. of Corrections, different proposals that would affect the budget burden, and how it ultimately affects our citizens.
TV Air Date: Thursday - February 05, 2009 at 7:30 pm
The Pew Center on the States recently conducted a study where more than one in 100 Americans are incarcerated – which has tremendous impact on any state budget, especially South Carolina, whose Department of Corrections has been running a budget deficit for several years. We look at these issues facing the Dept. of Corrections, different proposals that would affect the budget burden, and how it ultimately affects our citizens.
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We are very quick to judge those that get involved in to the jail/prison system. We never do more intence research on how this misfortunate cityzens/persons. got in to this situations in the first place, I have done research one on one and I have been a victim of police brutality as well.
I suffer a disability, I know many many people that have been treated unjustly and their lives torn apart due to unnesessary police brutality as well as ruining their reputation to the point of not being able to be employed anywhere after their unnesessary police reports and forze.
The way criminals think is in terms of self-justification.
If the system proves to be a pack of liars and a pound of fools in his eyes, then he is more likely to feel justified in further acts of crime. Truthfulness in sentencing and no parole changes all that. Except it puts a lot of lawyers out of business; but who cares. Judges can then feel free to be more like judges than number crunchers.
And what is wrong with truthfulness anyway ?
Without truthfulness we are as disreputable as those whom we judge, in many instances.
The middle court is a great idea because petty crime should never be linked to violent and serious crime in any sense, just as the guest speaker and head of corrections has shown.
Prisons create criminals out of those who would have desisted from their crimes, should they have had an alternative.
Under the watchful eye of Big Brother, South Carolina's justice system needs to prove itself to be more truthful and just than all others in the nation, setting the example for the rest, rather than being an eyesore and a cause for complaint.
I have personally spoken with thousands of inmates and I can count on one hand the number that actually thought about the punishment they would probably receive.
The middle court is a good idea.
If the legislature decided to pass the tougher sentencing law they better be ready to fund not only the Department of Corrections but Juvenile Justice, Probation, Parole and Pardon, Vocational Rehabilitation and the courts.
Look at the Big Picture.