tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post383371463481001300..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Harris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budgetGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15467138346125318722011-02-21T15:17:05.167-06:002011-02-21T15:17:05.167-06:00Harris County pleads! Priceless. Round and round w...Harris County pleads! Priceless. Round and round we go.........Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-33689343788853331972011-02-21T11:10:46.422-06:002011-02-21T11:10:46.422-06:00This state is NUTS about locking people up. Every ...This state is NUTS about locking people up. Every municipality in Harris County (Houston) has some kind of Lock-up. Deer Park, Bellaire, Pasadena, Houston (2 or 3 municipal jails), West University and I am sure there are several I have missed. <br /><br />Texas is one big prison/jail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-7609845369650183482011-02-21T08:33:55.349-06:002011-02-21T08:33:55.349-06:00The Harris County CJ Czar has been inside a jail b...The Harris County CJ Czar has been inside a jail because she visited her husband (George Bishop) when he was serving time for tax evasion. See link below from Houston Press article about "Power Lunch". <br />http://www.houstonpress.com/content/printVersion/222441/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-3940372663576793432011-02-20T17:34:03.106-06:002011-02-20T17:34:03.106-06:00Did you ask the Jail CZAR, who is an ex-judge and...Did you ask the Jail CZAR, who is an ex-judge and has never set foot in one, why they are running a Debtors Jail down there in Houston?<br /><br />Why are they jailing probationers for failing to pay a $50 fine or fee?<br /><br />As her why her comrades on the bench are rubber stamping so many arrest warrants for probationers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25668585191033645382011-02-20T14:34:15.817-06:002011-02-20T14:34:15.817-06:00It's simple math. If you don't reduce the ...It's simple math. If you don't reduce the number of people locked up, close down some of the needless prisons and bureaucracy it's going to cost money. More money and more money every year. Costs don't go down over time, they go up. With higher rates of incarceration, more felony class convictions to justify sentences etc etc, it's IMPOSSIBLE to fund this monster that we have built.<br /><br />Without real, serious reform including setting some people free, taking low level dopers out of the system and shuddering some of these facilities, we are going to pay for it one way or another. <br /><br />What we are witnessing is insanity playing out in front of our eyes and ears. Doing the same damn thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. Texas is a PRISON STATE. Period. We are. We can argue till the cows come home about whether it's needed or who should be locked up and who shouldn't about how eyewitness testimony is unfair and DNA is freeing some while locking up others yada yada yada.<br /><br />It's a MONSTER we have created. A cancer on this state and until someone, somewhere get serious, all this mindless banter about who needs what and where and how much doesn't mean shit.<br /><br />It's all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and regardless of what pot it comes from WE ARE PAYING FOR IT. Hello?Hook Em Hornshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660612847019528535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-45983201744234950252011-02-20T14:26:27.782-06:002011-02-20T14:26:27.782-06:00God to Texas: "How's that tough on crime ...God to Texas: "How's that tough on crime nonsense working out for ya?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21911238818797691752011-02-20T11:16:26.562-06:002011-02-20T11:16:26.562-06:00Well - that about says it all.
PlatoWell - that about says it all.<br /><br />PlatoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com