tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post5164372511114151163..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Solitary confinement down 34% in Texas prisons since 2006; elderly, Hep C driving inmate health costsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-21283018446253001182015-04-27T10:47:26.790-05:002015-04-27T10:47:26.790-05:00Only a group of bigoted, insensitive, medieval-min...<br />Only a group of bigoted, insensitive, medieval-minded, cruel, bastards would place a human being in a cage with sensory deprivation, lack of human contact, uselessly punitive, filthy, rusted, or inhumanely sterile cells where, in reality, one is buried alive. As to the picture: the cells are not that clean. The Skyview unit (which is supposed to be a hospital) in some areas and in ad seg is a cesspool, feces all over the place, from people gone mad over the years and from lack of sanitary standards; Ferguson in the 80's and now is a roach and rat infested dungeon. Michael's is cleaner, but still old and rusty with mildew. Allred is dirty and rusty. <br />As to "people want to be placed in adm. seg.": yes, when their lives areat stake,they may ask, having to choose between death or life, but they don't want to languish day after day in an hopeless and senseless gray cell deprived of human contact and anything that would remind them that they are human beings. Inmates sometimes resort to catching roaches and to try to keep them as pets - impossible to do. Those who "serve" in such an inhumane establishment and try to justify its existence, are insensitive, delusional, ignorant baboons, and, as far as I am concerned, I pray for them to someday rot in hell, in the hope that there is a hell in which they - as good "Christians" - believe.<br />Guards want to have respect as they are often not respected in their own community by anyone except their peers. You don't get respect when you participate in an inhumane, oppressive, unjustifiable, cruel system such as solitary confinement and super-max prisons. <br />While we are engaging in probably a useless discussions, those kept in these hellish places are suffering needlessly. They are, in effect, being subject to a form of slow torture that it is worse than death itself. Guards and wardens: be proud participants! And if you can look yourself in the mirror, I hope you don't see what I see when I think of your faces: a spiritually bankrupt, lost bunch of souls who don't have enough sense to just say "no" and move where they can find more humane jobs. <br />Thanks GFB for letting me rant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-41778770038457334652014-11-11T10:11:35.900-06:002014-11-11T10:11:35.900-06:00I fail to understand how folks such as the first c...I fail to understand how folks such as the first commenter can be so closed minded about sex offenders.<br /><br />Sir or Ma'am, please educate yourself! You look like a moron! Sex offenders, and in particular, the oldest amongst them are the least likely of any class of offense to re-offend again with the same type offense as first convicted. Sex offenders often get charged again with Failure to Register (classified as another sex crime) when they forget to change their vehicle's plates with the authorities, when they grow a beard, or their shoe size changes. No, I am not kidding! All in all, the only class of offenders who re-offends less is capital murders.<br /><br />Here, educate yourself. All of you. Or continue to encourage legislation based upon emotion, not facts. I promise, one day, that choice of yours will come around to bite you in the ass. I know, I am living this with my spouse.<br /><br /><br />"Post Release Recidivism...."<br />http://www.sascv.org/ijcjs/pdfs/nallyetalijcjs2014vol9issue1.pdf<br /><br />"High Risk Offenders May Not be High Risk Forever"<br />http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/20/0886260514526062.abstract<br /><br />"Sex Offenders Not High Risk of Repeat.."<br />http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CFUQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsmax.com%2FNewsmax-Tv%2FRick-Roberts-Melissa-Hamilton-sex-offenders%2F2014%2F08%2F27%2Fid%2F591282%2F&ei=dy9iVIKZIcmuyASOvIC4DQ&usg=AFQjCNE7iTRcVCJI6n_u83FIXlGr3GA9eA&bvm=bv.79189006,d.aWwHe's Innocentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-49539978830296392022014-11-08T00:36:48.282-06:002014-11-08T00:36:48.282-06:00Perhaps there should be a separate Medical Parole ...Perhaps there should be a separate Medical Parole Board, consisting of doctors and senior lew enforcement individuals, who have the experience, understanding and knowledge to make informed decisions, rather than the current BPP of political pawns.sunray's wenchhttp://texasprisonsupport.createaforum.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-46532210101772198812014-11-07T15:19:17.262-06:002014-11-07T15:19:17.262-06:00Dr. Linthicum never stated the Hep C offenders wer...Dr. Linthicum never stated the Hep C offenders were on Sovaldi. She just said 100 on UTMB side and 88 on Texas Tech side were receiving "active therapy". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-84209979180861920652014-11-07T13:27:02.277-06:002014-11-07T13:27:02.277-06:00Yes anon, because we all know that all sex offende...Yes anon, because we all know that all sex offenders are predators of children... *sigh*<br /><br />There are plenty of families who could financially support the inmates if they were paroled, rather than the whole state supporting them while they are incarcerated. sunray's wenchhttp://lookingforthecabinbythelake.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-39638141168726607682014-11-07T11:29:53.504-06:002014-11-07T11:29:53.504-06:00It will cost the tax payers the same wether they a...It will cost the tax payers the same wether they are in prison or out. They don't have jobs or insurance and never will for most of them. All sex offenders need to stay locked up for life. I can't believe we even consider sex offenders in trying to balance the budget. Think of the next little kids that person will victimize. It won't be worth it. We do hope for someone besides Whitmire. He has worn out his welcome. We need someone who knows what the heck they are doing and is not a bully. It would be nice that it would be someone who does not have a conflict of interest in who they are in a romantic realtionship with. Whitemire does not pass that test.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com