Tennessee to cut prison population by 3,000

How about giving them a good deterent for them to "not" go back to prison, such as put them back out there on a "chain gang" cleaning out ditches, picking up litter, repairing highways etc. etc. That's not cruel punishment, that's paying back society for the crime they committed. Instead of laying up in the cross bar motel watching color TV and sleeping with their roomie, work them hard enough so they'll never want to come back.

USCITIZENVETERAN wrote:

How about giving them a good deterent for them to "not" go back to prison, such as put them back out there on a "chain gang" cleaning out ditches, picking up litter, repairing highways etc. etc. That's not cruel punishment, that's paying back society for the crime they committed. Instead of laying up in the cross bar motel watching color TV and sleeping with their roomie, work them hard enough so they'll never want to come back.

That would fall under, "cruel and unusual punishment". Evidently, your not a U.S. native. In this country, this is a Federal violation. Prison inmates, are afforded certain protections under the U.S. constitution.This insures our status as a civilzed country, and not a third world country.

they said it is to save money,well if want to know the true,the prisons are packed to full of inmates.a prison that is to houes 2,500 humderd inmate have about 3000 to 3500 in then. they will be back { inmates } that is ,they get three hot meals a day, free med. a\c in cells cable tv eyecare, free school and they get paid to go to school with your taxs money.they can order food from a outside fastfood like DQ but they do pay for that with there money. so went they get out they won,t work ,they will live on your and my taxs money.Untill they go back to prison. i know this becuse i work in a prison.

Why not release inmates early the state of tennessee has no money, we can't find jobs living on the out is just like a prisons the only thing is we get no free room and board.

let all the inmates out!!!! our streets are just as a bad a prisons.

you talk about the state letting out inmate well,they are going to let 3000 th inmate out of tn prisons,so you can get ready for more crime on the streets in tn.they didn"t work befor they was locked up,so what make you think they are going to work went they get out.i have been in the prison work for a long time,3000 get out, 2995 will come back to prison on a crime.

Prisons are like the Schools everything has become to Liberal.
Bring back Old Smokey and violent Crime will drop sharply in Tennessee.

Getting in trouble once or twice or even a few times, DOES NOT make a person a Creer Criminal. Anyone who says they have never been in trouble or broke any of God's or man's laws, is a lying hoypocrite, which is worse than being a Thief. It takes a Lair to be a Thief, not a Thief to be a lair. The truth is, most people will fit in to being one or both, they just haven't been caught or got off and were forgiven if they did.

What is a person to do when they learn nothing but how to get into more trouble while locked-up-? What are then going to do when they get out if they can't find work or get work because they were in Jail-? DAH, live on the Streets and set around and starve-? I don't think so, I wouldn't and neither would you.

Lets be honest, talk is cheap, reality is reality, and the Courts are seeing good hard working people in them now who are out of work and have no means.

Read your Bible, it is going to get far, far worse, not better. We have seen nothing yet. Speaking of coming times ahead of us, look at ZECHARIAH 11:9. But what does a Book that has always been right know.

the Bible is good a inmate gets a bible in prison they roll it up and smoke drugs with it. went you jimmie king has worked are live in a prison the real world then you will know what reality is.

iambear wrote:

the Bible is good a inmate gets a bible in prison they roll it up and smoke drugs with it. went you jimmie king has worked are live in a prison the real world then you will know what reality is.

Your commit is as if ALL do such, as if ALL of us are going to Hell. It is a matter of Choice being in Prison or working at a Prison. All good guys don't wear White Hats and Badges, no more than all bad guys are People in Jails.

Some of the Newer Translations of the Bible maybe will need to be burnt as with Church ideas and ways of Men than have taken them over. I guess the same can be said about MOST Court Rooms DayCare Play Grounds and much of our Justice Sytem is Respecter Of Person for the sole purpose of Making Money for the few at At All Costs to many, right or wrong.

jimmie king sound like you was a inmate at one time,if not you are a bible nut.

iambear wrote:

jimmie king sound like you was a inmate at one time,if not you are a bible nut.

You bet ya friend. I pulled 8 months total in the US Army Stockade in two trips. But I was standing-up for something, mainly GOD and Country. What have or are you standing-up for-?

But no problem, "Me and Jesus, Have Our Own Thing Going."

A man steals a $2.00 bottle of wine from a liquor store, goes to prison for 8 years. At $38,000 dollars a year for 8 years =$30400.00 Dollars. Now I ask you should all the taxpayers have to pay for this up keep when the man didn't steal from all of us? Wouldn't it make more sence for the liquor store owner to pay, after all it was his $2.00 bottle of wine, and he's the one crying justice. Myself, I sick and tired of wasting tax money on prisons in the first place. Any one with half a brain knows that prisons are like a school, they learn how to do bigger and better crimes from the older more exper's. Just shut down the prisons, load up , aim stright!

Domo wrote:

A man steals a $2.00 bottle of wine from a liquor store, goes to prison for 8 years. At $38,000 dollars a year for 8 years =$30400.00 Dollars. Now I ask you should all the taxpayers have to pay for this up keep when the man didn't steal from all of us? Wouldn't it make more sence for the liquor store owner to pay, after all it was his $2.00 bottle of wine, and he's the one crying justice. Myself, I sick and tired of wasting tax money on prisons in the first place. Any one with half a brain knows that prisons are like a school, they learn how to do bigger and better crimes from the older more exper's. Just shut down the prisons, load up , aim stright!

Right on. There is no rehab or OJT Trade school like Training Programs. Most People in Pens and Local jails are in there on Drugs and petty charges to start with. Some times because of a cuttie and smart monuth Judge, as many are called and should be, because they are less in manhood than those who stand before them. There are many factors to why a person is and isn't in some Jail or Pen. But braking Laws of a minor sort is no call for all the Lock-up time given without Rehab.

iambear wrote:

jimmie king sound like you was a inmate at one time,if not you are a bible nut.

I am a Bible Nut. I find it is the Oldest and Best Histry Book there is. Without studying and having an understanding of it first, one sure don't know much about Real History, do they-?

well my thoughts are everyone deserves a second chance because there are some in prison who do change for the better. but it's the repeat offenders that i have problems with. we live in a world where only money matters and people don't want to hire those with felonies so they immaturely think that the only way to make it is that they commit a crime. this is the world we live in though!!!

If Prisions want to cut their population why not put to death the inmates on Death Row.

thetagmonkey wrote:

If Prisions want to cut their population why not put to death the inmates on Death Row.

I believe those who have no shame or remorse for what they did, should be sent on to their Final Judgment. Those who really Repent and Change, shouldn't. Then there is the matter of OUR (by proxy)putting Innocent People to Death. What is the value of one Life. There have been people found Innocent and Freed after serving more than 60 years, I believe. Who is going to give them back their lives-?

Jimmie King wrote:

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I believe those who have no shame or remorse for what they did, should be sent on to their Final Judgment. Those who really Repent and Change, shouldn't. Then there is the matter of OUR (by proxy)putting Innocent People to Death. What is the value of one Life. There have been people found Innocent and Freed after serving more than 60 years, I believe. Who is going to give them back their lives-?

A valid point.