Posted on January 5 at 12:13 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Ah, all you people with your negative unforgiving comments.
What would happen to the families of those people thown in jail for the duration of the mandatory sentence? Do you think most people have enough savings to pay the rent, buy the groceries, keep the power on, buy heat? Should those children be tossed out of their homes? Put into foster care? Where will they live after the minimum sentance? Will the land lords be forced to eat the lost rent? Should their houses and cars be repossesed by the poor banks who can't seem to get a break? Should the employers be forced to run their small buisnesses without what is usually essential staff or should they be fired so they can get out of jail with their kids taken away, no job, no home, no car, no unemployment... and see if they re-offend?
How many people get out of jail and and go straight to a bar? Home confinement allows people to adjust to their life without their vice and keep their lives together. Who was it, anyway, who said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"?
I have read the words of a bunch of ignorant bigotted pagans. I'm sure glad they aren't cops or judges or policy makers.
Recently it was pointed out to me that Wisconsin has 5 times as many people per capita in carcerated than Minnesota. Are the people that much better on the other side of that river or are the policies that much harsher over here. I agree with locking up dangers to society but drunks aren't so dangerous. Not every offender injures or kills some one every time they offend. This is a statistical throw of the dice senario.
I'm old. Been guilty many times and still have never hurt anyone or anything in 34 years of offending often. Thowing me in jail on this basis is as bad as using racial profiling and just taking a certain percentage of each race and thowing them in jail because they, statiscally, steal. The frequency of thefts will go down 10% if 10% of everyone is locked up.
Incarceration is not a viable solution.
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On Woman gunned down in Wausau
Posted on January 5 at 12:31 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I always thought the best way to prevent hijacking of aircraft was to give everyone on the plane a 1 shot, 1 use pistol loaded with shot too small to break a window but big enough to rip off skin and rupture eyes, penatrate clothes. Majority would rule. Any high jacker would get a whole bunch of leaks.
The same idea would apply to all citizens, without the small shot. It would take a whole lot more guts, stupidity avtually, to commit a crime if you knew that EVERYONE was packing a gun. Make it a law to have a gun on your person if you are outside of your home.