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Posted: 3:44 PM Jul 15, 2007
Governor Pushing for Sentencing Changes
Governor Granholm tries again with new criminal sentencing laws.
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my family and i prey for jennifer granholms prison reform plans. my childrens father is an inmate he is a good man who was threatened with bad choices due to our soaring job economy.we have 5 children under 9years old we want him to be able to have a chance to be sucessful.
This has got to be one of the dumist things Granholm has ever thought of. Lets let drug dealers out so that thay can sell drugs to kids, or pepol that use drugs for there own personal use, I think smoking pot no matter if your in your own home or not is aganst the law. This is tipacal of a Dem. instead of reducing spending in the prisons let pepol out so that they can go back to doing crimes. What happens if one of these pepol that Granholm wants to let out sells drugs to your kids, how do you think that would make you feel Id be mad as hell. And as for victimless crimes thats a bunch of BS no matter what crime is comitted theres allways a victim.
Just seen the payroll for kitchen workers at riverside correctional in ionia.not only is every prisoner payed by hour,the state also gives most prisoners a $40 bonus each month.over 2500 dollars for 1 month of bonuses for inmates. with 5 prisons in ionia that would average 12000 YES 12 THOUSAND a month bonus paid by you n I to inmates. Do you even wanna figure out state wide??
This may be one of the only issues that I agree with the Governor on.....in part. I think that we spend waaaay too much money confining criminals in cases of victimless crimes. The root of the problem, as I see it in part, is lawmakers making too many laws (job security). A part time legislature would be another significant improvement that would also save taxpayer dollars. Too much of anything is still TOO MUCH.....especially when it comes to Government!
Good for her! Finally - a good way to save some money. I understand that a lot of these crimes do deserve long sentences, but some of the sentences people are serving are outrageous. Financial crimes, hate crimes, sex crimes and the like shouldn't be touched. But when it comes to non violent drug offenders - let them free and put them into treatment programs. There are people in jail serving over 20 years for growing small ammounts of cannabis for personal use. But the people who commit rape and beat their kids only get 5-10 years. Doesn't make much sense does it? We spend more money each year fighting the war on drugs than we do educating our kids. Theres something wrong with that. I don't think that all drugs are ok. But cannabis is shown to be safer than alcohol and tobacco. Why do we continue to lock people up for something that hasn't ever killed a single person? Something that has medicinal and theraputic qualities and is proven to help inhibit the growth of tumors in lung cancer patients is outlawed but the 2 major vices that are killing our people every day are making people rich every day - raking in tens of millions of dollars every month. Where's the justice in that? Let the non-violent cannabis users out of jail and keep them out of jail! Their incarceration is nothing more than a drain on the tax payers wallet. Good for you Mrs Governor - good for you! I'm behind you 100% All of you who disagree with me - look at the facts. And not the facts presented by our federal government. Look at an unbiased opinion and tell me I'm wrong!
This convicts are using the prison system with short release time as a training ground and networking. Most are in the jail for a few years and they can establish a network of other criminals to continue their life in crime. Granholm should push to have those convicts to stay in jail.
We need tougher sentences and shorter ones. These prisons are becoming a valuable resource for convicts. They go in for a few years, learn some skills and make some contacts and restart their life as a criminal after they are released.
Well our governor is doing a real bad job and I will not side with her everything she touches turns to crap she is killing Michigan and it is not becuase of something that was left by someone else. She is not helping anything here she is making it worse and now she wants to let all the criminals out to run free and do what they did to get in there in the first place all over again. I agree wiht Pam take away all this stuff like TV and all the other things they have and make them work all the time when they are not sleeping or eating. They have it made in there and they no it that is why they get into trouble is so they can have it good and not have to work for it. This is all a bunch of crap and she needs to be gone out of office. Oh and not to mention she asked everyone to take cuts but you know she did not take any cuts herself and now she wants to spend more tax payor money to go overseas and do nothing but watse money she won't bring back that much work to make that big of a difference. Just like the jobs from Google she got yes she did get some but they are spread out over several years so that is not helping much now so where is the good in it when it is need now.
I am appalled at the amount of money that we spend to house these inmates. But I am even more appalled that some of these savages do not fear the justice system knowing that they could be out in 3-5 years for murder. The city and county of Baltimore shows the difference in crime rates with two different prosecutors. The city of Baltimore has one of the nations highest crime rates while the county of Baltimore has the lowest. The only difference is the county prosecutor does not accept plea bargains from the criminals and goes for the maximum sentence on every crime.
seems to me that if the state would delete all the luxuries that a prisoner gets for being "punished", by committing such crimes that harm the public, the state of Michigan should revert back to the "chain gang" way of life for the incarcerated person who is a menace to the public. a little hard labor never hurt any body. all of this freed up money could help the people who really need it such as the homeless, and could provide better solutions for insurance less fortunate people who cannot afford decent medical. putting tougher sentences to the habitual offenders with no luxuries would make it less attractive to the people who want to be professional offenders to clean up their acts. Jennifer, ask our southern brothers and sisters how their prison system works, and follow their lead. Actually, you're not a bad governor, its the fact that JOHN left you a big mess to take over when he left office.
Reduction in sentences, invites more crime, ship them out of state. Republicans put the state into debt, sounds like the democrats are trying to pull it out.