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Thanks for the post jillian. I will read your article next, but I remember Sheriff Joe from some T.V. news magazine, like 60 minutes. I can imagine 99.9% of the viewing audience, shaking their heads and saying, "By God, he would sure get my vote.
Again, your article might say all this, but he pleased all taxpayers in the county, the correctional department just about payed it's own way. He didn't mind being in the hot seat either. Any good, new, innovative program is bound to have its detractors - the ACLU lawyers and their type, like you suggest.
As a coincidence, my father was a guard all his life at New York State's largest maximum security prison known as Dannemora State Prison, Clinton Correctional Facility, and "Little Siberia". It is located high up in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where, as a schoolboy, I remember 5 - 6 consecutive 50 degree below Farenheight days (not even adding in the wind factor). The townsfolk took it in stride. But to prisoners of Carribean or Jamaican origin, convicted in New York City, being sent to "Little Siberia". Was a fate worse than death. I don't know if you are close to my age (55), but in the T.V. crime show Kojack (about 20 years ago), Telly Salavas used to threaten the convicts to cooperative, or he would send them to Dannemora. Probably about 1000 people in the whole country knew what he was refering to. Adjacent to the prison, they have another Prison for the Criminally Insane. (We are not talking about guys who were arrested for spitting on the sidewalk - these guys came from another planet. My father and another guard would sit in the background when the convict/patiens had their 45 minute session with the prison psychiatrists. I remember him telling my mother, that the doctor asked this one serial killer why he killed all 6 members of a family. His reply - "Well, everbody was home." Yeah.
Again, thanks for the update on Sheriff Joe. Sounds like it could be a movie in the making ... ? Maybe one of the two Presidential candidates has his eye on him for head of the F.B.I. He would sure get my vote!
Regards,
Charlie http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/NY3147/ (one of a couple of the prison's websites)  |
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In the words of my late mother, "I am in favor of capital punishment - as long as it's not too severe."
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| QUOTE (connor1985 @ 28-Feb-2006, 09:42 PM) | | lately it seems that condemn people are getting away with a lot more then crimes. CA at the moment has put all executions on hold because the doctors there will not inject the inmate to kill them. the inmate says that there might be some pain! will no duh dip but then again what about all the pain you have already caused someone else by whatever you did. these people have been sentenced by a jury of their peers to die and it shouldn't matter how they die in pain or not it must be carried out. now granted sometimes you do find someone who is innocent on death row and yes sometimes they die to but mistakes do happen and sorry about your luck. (yes i would care if it was someone in my family but if they were shown to have done it then the punishment must be carried out) i'm so tired of hearing oh we shouldn't kill people god says we shouldn't and blah blah blah. if you want to bring god and the bible up they stoned people to death all the time for crimes that were committed!! capital punishment has been around forever but now it seems to be facing extinction. many states are trying to do away with the death penalty so now we'll have to pay for these inmates for the rest of their lives to sit in jail and live better then some innocent people do! where is the justice in this?? |
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