tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post8295351774523189598..comments2024-02-15T02:46:48.670-05:00Comments on Erin O'Brien: Live free or dieErin O'Brienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09089592061725346901noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-25680160920126825872014-05-18T10:47:29.623-04:002014-05-18T10:47:29.623-04:00When does it end? When does all of it end?When does it end? When does all of it end?Erin O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089592061725346901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-7732439014039594232014-05-18T01:05:47.911-04:002014-05-18T01:05:47.911-04:00Yeah, RJ.
CCA lobbying is one of the reasons some...Yeah, RJ.<br /><br />CCA lobbying is one of the reasons some states have made little or no headway in efforts to rationalize and humanize sentencing of first-time small-time drug offenders.<br /><br />That one citizen can in essence lobby to keep another citizen in jail so that citizen #1 can make more money is beyond sleazy-it's turn-over-the-big-rock-and-watch-the-squirming-vermin sleazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-11474481764086431912014-05-14T10:31:03.993-04:002014-05-14T10:31:03.993-04:00Great comments.
Tennessee recently passed legisla...Great comments.<br /><br />Tennessee recently passed legislation that mandates imprisonment for pregnant women found to be using drugs over the objections of the medical community who asserted what they really need is treatment. I suspect CCA(CXW-NYSE $32.44)is already drafting the plans for their maternity ward.<br /><br />If shame would modify human behavior there'd be no bad behavior. As a local Methodist minister gone Sufi told me one day "Blame the Puritans."<br /><br />RJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-40108104997525187312014-05-14T09:10:57.365-04:002014-05-14T09:10:57.365-04:00Thank you all for these evocative comments. MR, yo...Thank you all for these evocative comments. MR, you make me smile. Mike, you imbue me with a haunting nostalgia. DDP, you reach right into my heart.Erin O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089592061725346901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-44132489520434212022014-05-14T01:03:53.060-04:002014-05-14T01:03:53.060-04:00Many years ago, I had to serve 3 days at a minimum...Many years ago, I had to serve 3 days at a minimum security facility for a DUI.<br /><br />Ironically, this was the place that my grandmother had worked most of her life. Only, way back then, it had been a mental institution.<br /><br />When I was a child, my dad would pick me up after school, then we would head over to the institution to pick up my grandma.<br /><br />I didn't know what that was all about way back then, but my grandma would tell us stories as I got older.<br /><br />You can imagine my feelings as the prison bus pulled up to the facility and dropped me and the other inmates off at our home for the weekend....a place I knew all too well. The irony!<br /><br />(My family does not know that this ever happened. This was a huge event of shame for me.)<br /><br />But after living in this jail like environment, even though it was more like boarding school than prison....I came away with a feeling of great sadness.<br /><br />Most of the women there were in for years at a time, most of them had been there repeatedly. It was mostly for drug and prostitution. These women had no hope. No life. They only knew one way of living.<br /><br />I cannot begin to convey the sadness I felt there.<br /><br />But it seems you understand, having felt the ghosts of the prison you visited.<br /><br />Prison doesn't help most of the people who end up there. I could ramble on about that. But I have a feeling you know.<br /><br />Your post tugs at my heart.DogsDontPurrhttp://dogsdontpurr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-36269271776923326422014-05-13T02:20:23.633-04:002014-05-13T02:20:23.633-04:00Some of my earliest memories ... I would have been...Some of my earliest memories ... I would have been about 4 at the time, back about 1959, living in the countryside outside of Pavonia in Richland County ... waving in the morning on summer days to trucks full of prison inmates headed out to work the fields, and waving again in the afternoon when they drove past again. It used to please me immensely when the men waved back.mike shupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383379836883992742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-60030552841158189252014-05-13T01:48:35.348-04:002014-05-13T01:48:35.348-04:00In the winter of '87-'88 I was between gig...In the winter of '87-'88 I was between gigs and worked for about 6 weeks at an amusement park in Florida. It was around Bowl-game season and the band from Mansfield was there. I told them I was going to Ohio soon to visit my Dad, who had lived in Mansfield for almost twenty years...at the Infirmery or Refractory or some such, and was it a nice place? They stayed away from the games area for a bit<br />=================================<br /><br />Today (5/13) is the actual anniversary of the MOVE disaster. There was a fine contemporaneous doc on Frontline called "The Bombing of West Philly" which is I believe still available online.<br /><br /><br />MR Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-89640559472183631602014-05-12T08:33:38.109-04:002014-05-12T08:33:38.109-04:00The place was so overwhelming, I didn't think ...The place was so overwhelming, I didn't think about it while I was there, but there were no doubt innocent men among the 155,000 incarcerated here--utterly chilling.Erin O'Brienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09089592061725346901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-25884732737033838882014-05-12T04:40:29.415-04:002014-05-12T04:40:29.415-04:00RJ's not ALways wrong.RJ's not ALways wrong.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18122582.post-19924712277835981042014-05-11T21:19:55.687-04:002014-05-11T21:19:55.687-04:00Well done.
RJWell done.<br /><br />RJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com