tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5057387602184721091..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Boo Hoo: Fewer prisoners bad news for speculative prisons, jailsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-36104439941162678192013-03-08T11:46:39.716-06:002013-03-08T11:46:39.716-06:00OTH. You are right. Probation is generally blame...OTH. You are right. Probation is generally blamed for many failures. Either we send too many to prison or we are way too liberal and treatment oriented and don't send enough to prison. Take your pick. It's a no win. However, providing that "rock solid evidence," showing statistically that we are the sole reason for the declining use of prison beds I think would be next to impossible. We can never prove if any intervention program we provided had anything to do with an offender staying out of the system. I think it does, but that's just me. Jim Stotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09484387651863003779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-51394874131185788982013-03-08T07:16:56.037-06:002013-03-08T07:16:56.037-06:00Re Jim Stott
When crime goes up probation is blam...Re Jim Stott<br /><br />When crime goes up probation is blamed<br />When crime and prison occupancy rates fall, the economy, law enforcement, years of previous tough on crime sentencing, the weather...etc., are all to be credited for the results.<br />Probation appears to struggle when attempting to provide rock solid evidence that its diligence is what is driving the good results.Orion the Hunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-24443683167645651472013-03-07T18:38:48.119-06:002013-03-07T18:38:48.119-06:00Grits, please educate Hidalgo County Sheriff befor...Grits, please educate Hidalgo County Sheriff before he convinces the county to pony up the money for his jail expansion project!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-72683667912265151952013-03-07T11:14:51.106-06:002013-03-07T11:14:51.106-06:00Vacant jail beds may have a little to do with the ...Vacant jail beds may have a little to do with the reforms and progressive sanctions that have been implemented since 2005. I certainly hope that's the case. Jim Stotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09484387651863003779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-8634033608727479022013-03-07T10:06:08.621-06:002013-03-07T10:06:08.621-06:00Private enterprise is amazing. Here's an idea ...Private enterprise is amazing. Here's an idea to make it moreso:<br /><br />Wall Street has mutual funds for international companies, tech companies, utilities, the green sector - just about anything that might boom.<br /><br />Why not a misery fund made up of companies that build and run private prisons? <br /><br />The U.S. incarceration rate already far exceeds public-safety needs, and poor people dominate prison populations, so the fund's value would have the added utility of tracking the trading price of the freedom of lower-class citizens.<br /><br />Or is this already being done?Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-81586541571686131072013-03-07T08:24:55.432-06:002013-03-07T08:24:55.432-06:00If these were privatized prisons, you can bet ther...If these were privatized prisons, you can bet there would be legislators falling all over themselves to enhance sentences in order to create "clientele" for the prisons. Bidness always outweighs justice, fiscal prudence and common sense.Alannoreply@blogger.com