tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post116734586454164583..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Wichita Falls editorials: Texas needs realistic laws, not more prison porkGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1167421870240598402006-12-29T13:51:00.000-06:002006-12-29T13:51:00.000-06:00I hope the media will continue to realize the mess...I hope the media will continue to realize the mess we have created. Published yesterday was an article on the rise in suicides in Texas prisons caused by solitary confinement with the important comment: "Length of sentence is the main factor". Texas has set its course with the cost to, not protection of, the taxpayers. Solitary confinement, modifications to solitary to prevent violence by those without options, young offenders sentenced to life, leading to increased mental health treatment and high medical costs for aging prisoners. Reinforced by no meaningful parole, elimination of good conduct time credit, and lack of treatment and rehabilitation making any progress out impossible. Uneducated jurors with huge range of punishment played on by prosecutors. No meaningful appeal. The costs to families and children growing up as a permanent underclass...and we go on and on. Political posturing and retribution/revenge playing on ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1167416781003235242006-12-29T12:26:00.000-06:002006-12-29T12:26:00.000-06:00Since you thought Mr. Wilson might have written th...Since you thought Mr. Wilson might have written these two editorials, I forwarded him the Grits link and it turns out you're right. He replied thusly:<BR/><BR/>"Thanks for the link. I did write them and meant every word. On Sunday,<BR/>my column is on a similar subject. Have a great new year."Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1167407849233181272006-12-29T09:57:00.000-06:002006-12-29T09:57:00.000-06:00Thank you for your comments from the Times and Rec...Thank you for your comments from the Times and Record News. I hope Carroll Wilson wrote these articles as he is the most fair minded person I know and always and is not afraid to confront anyone he thinks is wrong. My hat's off to you for noticing what the TRN stated, this is fact and not fiction and there are a lot of men and women who do not need to be in prison and need to have their rights restored to them so the can produce and not take. The State of Texas is know as the haning capital and this started when our present President took office. Dear Lord can we tolerate him anymore and the damage he has done to our country? It will take 50 + years to come even close to being the respefted country we once was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com