To follow up on the previous story of Chad Grayless, I agree with IndyBlue, that our system is broken as it is today. When we have people that are convicted of crime after crime and are let out on the streets only to re-commit, its time to take action.
When we have judges that give out suspended sentences one after another our system needs to be overhaul. When prisons are so full that they let out these offenders early, something has to be done before we can get crime under control. The American people have had it up to here with crime. Its time for judges and courts to take action. Its time for that patrolman to arrest someone and know that he or she will not be back on the street that night.
What is disturbing to me, we can spend one million dollars a day on the construction of a new football stadium while these criminal types get out because we do not have the space to keep them. Until we take this issue of jail term seriously I do not see why crime should go down in this city. Now I have no problem with sports but lets put it in perspective of what this city needs first.
Mayor Ballard said in a meeting that I attended, he does not think that “lock them up and throw away the key” is the answer. He stated that education is the key to our crime problem. Yes I think education is important but you have to look at the root of the problem. These same people that stay in trouble year after year, you can educate all you want but are they willing to accept that education?
Our system of today as we look at our justice system is broken. And if the future holds true of a downturn in the economy crime will advance.
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I've always wondered why we couldn't simply sign a deal with a firm like Wackenhut, give the ma guaranteed contract to operate a jail facility for 10-20 years, then allow them to build their own facility (using IMPD standards, of course) that could be used to reduce/eliminate overcrowding.
Didn't we just elect a new mayor who pledged to utilize more "outside of the box" type thinking?
But that new Mayor has only been in office for only a little over 3 weeks. It takes time for this goverment to make changes. Lets give the new people a chance to work.
Many Federal facilities are available for the fixing up of them. Marion VA comes to mind, Camp Atterbury, Richmond (a state facility?) and you can warehouse people there for the cost minimal, transporting them back, or, better yet, sending the damned lazyass courts down there or up there as the case may be. Keeps criminals off the streets at low costs.
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