tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post2597823453607549536..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Why Texas' civil commitment program was found unconstitutionalGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-66253378858791098102016-07-31T16:20:17.065-05:002016-07-31T16:20:17.065-05:00What happen in Mr.Mays case is why people lose res...What happen in Mr.Mays case is why people lose respect for the Judicial System,Why are these men still placed in a Prison called treatment facility after they have done their time???And for another 7 years of Time in treatment,When does this end? This is Unconstitutional and we wonder why people go Postal?? In these cases people are being kept incarcerated LONGER.........WHY? Are they going to do the same to the people convicted of DUI or murders? Are they not a Danger to Society???Think about it Where is their Facility?There are a lot of Tax $$$Being used and the Due Hearings are being paid by the state for everyone civil committed.This makes me Sick to know we have no Justice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-17801779095840552222016-05-22T14:12:37.603-05:002016-05-22T14:12:37.603-05:00It's not a secret prison, it's been all ov...It's not a secret prison, it's been all over the local news & the papers as well & it's in Littlefield, Texas, not Lubbock!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-41112780000926844002015-12-21T17:19:38.898-06:002015-12-21T17:19:38.898-06:00A sex offender treatment program that has not rele...A sex offender treatment program that has not released a single offender during its 15 years of existence must be: A) Staffed by the most incompetent administrators, treatment providers, case managers, etc. in the history of the world, B) Populated by the worst group of sex offenders to have ever walked the earth in its 4.5 billion year history, C) Utilizing a treatment model totally lacking in efficacy or D) Acting with deliberate intent not to release anyone ever. <br /><br />If the intent is to keep all of these men locked up and/or under intense supervision for life, then why not change the sentencing for all sex offenders with two or more sex offenses to LWOP? <br /><br />What the general public probably doesn't realize is that, because the program can only accept at most 50 new civilly committed offenders each year, many more sex offenders who are just as bad or worse simply walk out of TDCJ on Mandatory Supervision or having completed their sentences each year. At present, the number of civil commitments per year has been greatly reduced because of a lack of space to house them. I wonder what will happen when the Littlefield facility is filled to capacity? How many empty prisons does Texas have? The Comediannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-12041051460733325002015-12-21T02:41:01.175-06:002015-12-21T02:41:01.175-06:00This is very Unconstitutional! This program is No ...This is very Unconstitutional! This program is No Good,Why are these men in a Secret Prison? Meanwhile the Families whom got rip off lots of money to become Chaparons for their relatives whom are in this program have not been able to be Chaparons due to these men are in Lubbock way far from their Families.How are these men going to have Support as they are many many miles away.As the New Program of Tiers starts now they said that it will take them 5 years to complete this program,What happen to All our Tax dollars spent in Austin with Therapy with Shelley Graham???Also all the paid Taxi usage to take these men to therapy.Whitmire needs to stop all this Mess,he created the Bill and it has no Release Time,Why?The purpose of this program is to continue to punish these men,that is not right.Now the men were told that any little thing they do, that they will be placed back in prison.God is watching all that is happening to these people and their families,How do yall Sleep?This poor man only wanted to take care of his mom.Now he will be in there another 5 years.That is Wrong!What about all the Cases on hold waiting on Attorney General to process,Why do these men have to wait 2 years for their court documents to be heard? The New Facility Looks like a Prison,smells like a prison,It's A Prison,They are suppose to be in a Treatment place,Is the Director aware of this?To All these people have Meetings for the public,but for 3 months no meetings,It's the Law to have meetings!What is the problem?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5672191877700669662015-12-20T06:55:53.425-06:002015-12-20T06:55:53.425-06:00Seem like the highest form of b/s to me. These men...Seem like the highest form of b/s to me. These men were sentenced to a term and many of them have served their terms to the fullest, Thus enabling them to freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Many of these men were role model inmates while incarcerated in TDCJ gaining high levels of education. However because of the type of crime committed they are shifted from one prison to another. This is crazy!!! While other more viscious prisoners are being released daily. Such as murderers for example <br />To whomever is so concerned: What is it that ee can do to get more people inbolved. <br />Sincerely Mandinka XMan Mali.<br />Kthomas1026@hotmail.com<br />214 586 2930Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-85555745747141938092015-12-19T11:32:47.413-06:002015-12-19T11:32:47.413-06:00Texans can all breathe easier and put away their A...Texans can all breathe easier and put away their AKs now. An Appeals Court has reversed Judge Reiter's decision and Alonzo May is back in custody, headed back to prison in Littlefield. The Comediannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-6991106116667645702015-12-18T13:14:30.220-06:002015-12-18T13:14:30.220-06:00Our commercial courts have become the enemy within...Our commercial courts have become the enemy within. They are biased, greedy and lied when they took their Oath to the people in which they represent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-5655740083154775152015-12-18T10:31:14.738-06:002015-12-18T10:31:14.738-06:00From around the web:
Those who shout the loudest ...From around the web:<br /><br />Those who shout the loudest usually have the most to hide.<br /><br />He who yells loudest about morality is hiding the most revolting perversions.<br /><br />The loudest blowhards about morality and decency are always caught with their pants down.<br /><br />"Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived."<br />Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /><br />"All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all."<br />Author: Thomas Pynchon<br /><br />"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."<br />Author: Eric Hoffer<br /><br />"The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness."<br />Author: John C. Danforth<br /><br />"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."<br />Author: Mark Twain<br /><br />"An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers."<br />Author: Plato<br /><br /><br />Extracts from http://floridaactioncommittee.org/those-who-scream-the-loudest/:<br /><br />Remember Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggert and Ted Haggard, who preached morality and warned against sin, all the while they were stealing from their congregations and/or cheating on their wives? <br /><br />How about NY Governor Elliot Spitzer, who as the State's Attorney General cracked down hard on prostitution, then got outed as a recurring client of an escort agency?<br /><br />Florida's own Representative Mark Foley, who was the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children, the most vocal politician against internet crimes against children and fought for passage of the Adam Walsh Act got caught, within a year of its passage, text messaging underage congressional pages with sexually explicit messages.<br /><br />Speaking of the Adam Walsh Act; John Walsh admitted to dating his wife while she was underage! Shouldn't he be prosecuted?<br /><br />Mark Lunsford, after whose daughter, Jessica, many sex offender proximity restrictions are named. Mark's other child, Joshua was arrested as an adult for molesting a 14-year-old. Shouldn't he be subjected to the Jessica Lunsford Act?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25357820580142992942015-12-18T08:58:06.329-06:002015-12-18T08:58:06.329-06:00I just published the above comment, meant to add m...I just published the above comment, meant to add my name.Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-71068009651457829602015-12-18T08:56:12.507-06:002015-12-18T08:56:12.507-06:00Thank God that there are still judges like Judge R...Thank God that there are still judges like Judge Reiter. I am proud to be a native Texan for a lot of reasons but the contempt that is displayed from our elected and appointed officials regarding how to administer "justice" is downright ugly and bordering on evilness. This contempt is evident in it's approach towards all persons caught up in the civil or criminal justice proceedings that have reached epic proportions.<br /><br />However, when it comes to how our state treats citizens who have committed sexual offenses there is no question whatsoever -- their dealings toward these individuals are indeed evil and no attempt to rehabilitate such citizens is even remotely considered. Most of these same officials put their hands on the Bible, claim to be Christians and take an oath of office to uphold the U.S. and Texas constitution -- the very same Bible that promotes true justice and forgiveness.<br /><br />These same officials, for the most part, won't even look at the empirical evidence that shows the vast majority of citizens who have committed sexual offenses will never commit another sex offense period -- roughly 97%. This includes sexual crimes against adults as well as children. They simply will not listen to what the experts are telling them on the subject -- that the vast majority of new sex offenses, 97%+, are committed by someone not on the registry.<br /><br />All this leads one to wonder by what standard did these citizens who are civilly committed actually become committed? I think that each and every one of these individuals should receive a full and independent review of their commitment hearings and a complete overhaul of the civil commitment process should be immediately implemented. It's quite evident that Senator Whitmire's efforts in regards to fixing the civil commitment debacle in Texas is a complete and utter failure. He's done some good things in the past but this is a disaster.<br /><br />It's time to tell the private companies that make money off of citizens that are caught up in the criminal justice system of Texas to get lost. It should be against the law to allow this to happen in the first place. This opens the door to so much opportunity for corruption, as if there isn't enough of that in other areas not dealing with criminal justice. These people in civil commitment are required to pay for their GPS monitors? Really? What company makes money off of these monitors? Who owns these companies? What connections do they have to current or past state officials? The questions go on and on .......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-58828308951855603252015-12-18T04:11:49.009-06:002015-12-18T04:11:49.009-06:00And it seems obvious that SCFO has dropped the bal...And it seems obvious that SCFO has dropped the ball once again. If SCFO is to represent the men in civil commitment, how in good conscience can they step back and allow men, many of whom are mentally ill, fend for themselves during these tremendously important proceedings? Thank goodness Bill Marshall, Nancy Bunin, and a few other attorneys have worked to do what SCFO will not do. It is a disgrace. And, the problem is not with the individual attorneys at SCFO who work hard to try to help the men in civil commitment, but with the leadership at SCFO. It is a sad state of affairs when a public defender type office strives to do as little as possible for those it is supposed to represent. It is even sadder to think that SCFO attorneys must be careful not to provide too much legal assistance for the men they represent in civil commitment for fear of getting fired or disciplined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-19147529561769763302015-12-17T21:44:09.160-06:002015-12-17T21:44:09.160-06:00Previous OVSOM Director Allison Taylor and Judge M...Previous OVSOM Director Allison Taylor and Judge Michael Seiler repeatedly made statements to the effect that no one would ever be released from civil commitment under their watch. Seiler even bragged about it while campaigning to his Tea Party brethren in Montgomery Co. <br /><br />Seiler is such a narcissistic egomaniac that when the new TCCO director, Marsha McLane, went to meet him, they met in Seiler's courtroom where Seiler sat in his chair behind the bench and had a court reporter take notes for a transcript of their meeting. I'm not sure if he was physically intimidated by McLane or if he held a gun in his lap as he did during at least one civil commitment trial because he was so fearful of the offender on trial. <br /><br />Taylor repeatedly told the media that her program was a success because no civilly committed offender had ever reoffended. Of course she neglected to mention that no one had ever been released from civil commitment. She also neglected to mention that Texas' "outpatient" civil commitment program kept all of the civilly committed offenders confined in halfway houses rather than in the community as the original law apparently intended by its use of the term "outpatient" treatment. If staff members wrote any notes or reports considered too favorable regarding an offender, they were told to rewrite those notes or reports. <br /><br />Men who were "treated" in the civil commitment program for 10+ years and who had gone through the entire program four (4) times were still not considered for release. I wonder if Seiler ever told his Tea Party audiences that the annual cost of keeping an offender civilly committed in a halfway house was twice that of keeping an inmate locked up in TDCJ.<br /><br />I believe that the former program, while it may have been constitutional, was run in an unconstitutional manner by Taylor and Seiler. Perhaps they should spend 10 years in a halfway house being forced to memorize multiplication tables.<br /><br />I also believe that men who were committed under the old law cannot constitutionally be placed in the new program without a new trial or an agreed order and adequate representation by counsel. The Comediannoreply@blogger.com