Aging inmates clogging nation's prisons

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
It is good that they´re still locked away. Society has to be protected from them.

Stats show that (aside from sex criminals), once someone reaches the age of 55, they are very unlikely to commit another crime.

I say: slap a GPS ankle bracklet on them and release them on probation. No need for us to pay the tens of thousands of dollars it takes each year to keep each of these now-harmless geezers in prison.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
It is good that they´re still locked away. Society has to be protected from them.

You never know what harm these old people can do to innocent citizens, with their wheelchairs and crutches

Like drain my social security!

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by DaShi


Like drain my social security!

It's not the old farts of today who'll be giving your problems. It's people like me -- the old folks of tomorrow -- who'll be doing you in.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
It's people like me -- the old folks of tomorrow -- who'll be doing you in.

Well Zkribbler, it's already long past midnight here.

[SlowwHand]

Cripes. I'm closer to 60 than 40. How in the hell....
WINSTON! You were supposed to be keeping me informed.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Berzerker
the jails are overcrowded because of the drug war

It's just a hunch, but I doubt many of the geriatric prisoners are in there for drugs.

[Proteus_MST]

Maybe some of them are in for one of the first drug wars the US government fought.

The one called the prohibition

[Winston]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Cripes. I'm closer to 60 than 40. How in the hell....
WINSTON! You were supposed to be keeping me informed.

Listen, just start counting the years backwards. You'll be 40 again before you know it.

Well, in less than 20 years from now, anyway..

[Blake]

This is a ****ty deal. People can change. I've never committed a crime, but I know I'm a lot wiser now than I was even 3 years ago. I'd hate to be judged and remembered forever by how I acted when I was 22. I'm only 25 now.

Be it for the greater good or otherwise, it's still a ****ty deal. Don't think that someone who has committed a crime isn't worthy of compassion, and don't think that compassion is a limited resource which must be strictly rationed (by that I mean: "ZOMG care not for the victim?!!". No. Care for Both.)

[Dis]

that's something i haven't thought of. Do prisoners with a life sentence with no possibility of parole get social security checks after age 65?

[Wezil]

Inmates have been known to collect welfare here...

[Riesstiu IV]

Why not just turn New Jersey into one massive prison and send 'em all there?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
Why not just turn New Jersey into one massive prison and send 'em all there?

Cruel and unusual punishment is illegal.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Cruel and unusual punishment is illegal.

Wait a minute. New Jersey is the Garden State!

[DinoDoc]

I suppose you think Greenland is actually green too.