But we LOVE OUR KIDS -- unless they smoke pot!
"Law on Young Offenders Causes Rhode Island Furor" by KATIE ZEZIMA
It was conceived as a way to save money in the face of a $450 million deficit in Rhode Island’s current budget: making 17-year-olds adults in the eyes of the law, shifting their cases to criminal from juvenile court and putting offenders in the state prison rather than the youth correctional center.
There is ALWAYS the ARMY, too, kiddies!
The proposal to treat 17-year-olds as adults for criminal-justice purposes was the subject of a legislative hearing in March, where Patrick C. Lynch, the state’s attorney general and Democrat whose office is elective, and others came out strongly against it.
Opponents took little action after that, as many thought it would be killed in the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. But it survived, and before long it became apparent that the new law could well cost money rather than save it.
See how CAN'T TRUST DemocraPs on ANYTHING, readers?
It's a FALSE CHOICE!!
The true choices now are Freedom or Fascism!
Enslavement or Empowerment!
Survival or Extinction!
Peace or War!
But no choice on the PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that is going to HOUSE our KIDS!!!
Cha-ching!!!!!!
The State Department of Children, Youth and Families, which had proposed the idea, had assumed that 17-year-olds would be held among the general prison population, where incarceration costs $39,000 an inmate per year, 60 percent less than the $98,000 in the juvenile-offender system.
Yeah, just toss the kids in jail with hardened criminals -- we need to SAVE SOME MONEY!!!
This fucking country is ILL, people!
ILL, ILL, ILL!!!!!!!!!!!
But A. T. Wall II, director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, decided that for the sake of the young inmates’ protection, they would be held in maximum security, where the annual per-inmate cost is $104,000.
And CUI BONO? $$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!
As of last week, 46 17-year-olds had been held at the state prison since July 1, all in maximum security. Mr. Neal, the governor’s spokesman, said the policy might nonetheless still save money, though not as much as expected.
And WHAT ABOUT the CHILDREN, you fucking heartless, money-grubbing shit?
He noted that it was part of a broader plan to lower the age of those being held at the youth facility, the Rhode Island Training School, which houses offenders as old as 23, many of whom could be transferred to the general adult-prison population.
So PRISON is a SCHOOL now!!! Actually, it always was!!!!!
And why would you want to transfer the kids?
That would mean LESS $$$$$$$$!!!!
Beyond the fiscal issue are those involving public-records law, privacy and even bail. Seventeen-year-olds are not legally authorized to sign a contract in Rhode Island, and as a result cannot sign a bail form or a plea agreement without a parent present.
But they can be TOSSED in JAIL without your permission, parents!
And are the youth ever second-class citizens, huh?
NO RIGHTS!!! No wonder they are acting out so much!
John J. Hardiman, the state’s public defender:
“How do you plea a kid, or how do you post bail, when you’re not old enough to contract?”
The new law also now makes the records of 17-year-olds public, unlike all juvenile records in the state, which are sealed.
Keep shitting on the kid!
Attorney General Lynch believes the law unnecessary because he could previously elevate juvenile cases to the adult level if the suspect had committed prior offenses or the crime was particularly violent. He said he believed the measure was destroying the lives of young nonviolent offenders, as drug convictions make it harder to find jobs and housing and cause students to be ineligible for federal aid.
Aaaaah! There you go!
Un-fucking-real, this government!!!!
This is a way to CUT OFF MONEY to youth and SPEND IT ON WAR!!!
WAKE UP, kids and parents, before you get caught up in the DRAFT!!!!
Yet what are the headlines in the papers today?
BASEBALL!!
"Jubilant Red Sox fansawait victory parade today"
"Reporter from Red Sox Nation finds sneers and loathing in the land of Yankees"
"Red Sox the New Yankees? Them’s Fighting Words"
"Girardi Is Yankees’ Choice for Manager"
It's o.k.
Kid got to watch the game from his cell -- NOT!
UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!
MSM SUCKS!!!!!!!!
Mr. Lynch: “This isn’t about the murderers, rapists, robbers — they could all be waived. This is about if there’s one joint in a car with four kids and it’s not lit. Those charges aren’t what they used to be. The world has changed for 17-year-olds in Rhode Island.”
Yeah, it';s about KICKING the KIDS out of the SYSTEM -- thereby SAVING the government money so it can spend the money on WARS!!!!
Not caring for the population it allegedly "loves and protects."
And you just never mind that the GOVERNMENT is the biggest DRUG-RUNNERS in AmeriKa!!!!!
Ten other states try people under 18 as adults. Connecticut currently tries 16-year-olds as adults.
Wow, "LIBERAL" Connecticut wants to JAIL it's CHILDREN, huh?
LIBERALS SUCK ASS!!!!!!!!!!
Dennys George, 17, of Providence, agrees.
Thank you (he is the fine young man in the photograph of the link)!
He was arrested in early July on drug possession charges and spent three days in the state prison. The offense was his first, and he was sentenced to nothing more than five years’ probation. Still, he now has a record.
Mr. George “This is not helping young kids. It’s going to affect them for the rest of his or her life. It’s affecting me. I haven’t gotten a job. I’m almost 18, and this is just the beginning.”
That's the point!
I guess you will just have to JOIN the ARMY, 'eh, kid?
Reader, HOW DARE AmeriKa get up on its high, moral horse and CRITICIZE ANYONE?
We already poison them!
Now we are JAILING CHILDREN to SAVE MONEY!!!!!!
And yet, the MSM and government say we LOVE THEM!!!
I am TOTALLY ASHAMED!!!!!!
