tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post1517969017292185781..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: California prison reform package implodes amidst partisan bickeringGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-64196369733550065152008-10-04T22:14:00.000-05:002008-10-04T22:14:00.000-05:00To anonymous. You are right it is ignorance that ...To anonymous. You are right it is ignorance that leads the feirce hand of justice and profit of the popular option/vote that engineered itself around being economically viable.Gregory Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13941293533034546192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1022126914651042022008-10-04T18:48:00.000-05:002008-10-04T18:48:00.000-05:00The cost of incarcerating an inmate is almost alwa...The cost of incarcerating an inmate is almost always far greater than the costs created by his crimes -- and that's assuming he did anything in the first place! "Conservatives" will vote for tens of billions of dollars for incaration but not one penny for welfare or education.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-53395474701825517732008-09-30T00:03:00.000-05:002008-09-30T00:03:00.000-05:00Ask yourself this if you take roughly 2% of the po...Ask yourself this if you take roughly 2% of the population and then double that, how much money is taken out of the economy. Be it from legitamate or illigitamate sources. Multiply that by a pissed off father, nurturing mother plus a person who has a hell of a time getting a job. Throw those people in an even smaller box, you get rage, Discourse and a hugeGregory Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13941293533034546192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-45925508011023840612008-09-24T08:39:00.000-05:002008-09-24T08:39:00.000-05:00And in general it's all a commentary on the useles...And in general it's all a commentary on the uselessness of trying to incarcerate yourself out of social problems...some of whom, like illicit drugs, only became 'problems' when they became illicit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com