Three murders this week in the Ink: Henry Davis, Murriel Chew and an as-yet-unidentified man. Plus more on the thoroughly WTF?! case of Juanita Robinson.
"Attorney In Bus Beating Wants Case Dismissed" Well, duh!
HoCo slugger Kevin Klink got 13 years. His victim's father didn't know how to take Klink's apology.
In the county, Nicholas Weaver was formally charged in the 2002 murder of David Baskin, Jr. Weaver was returned to Baltimore yesterday from New York after waiving an extradition hearing.
A couple of armed gas station robbers were nailed by police after stealing money from a teenager in the Deener.
The cells in their cells provide "extraordinary telephonic opportunity."
A 16-year-old set off an explosive device in his Millersville high school, and now faces felony charges.
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Klink's family got a good lawyer who worked a good deal for him, but the following statement from the Sun sums up why I think it's a light sentence. '"The facts don't mean nothing when you bring a bat to a fight," said Robert Brazell Sr.'
Volentary Manslaughter for someone who brought a weapon to a premeditated fight then killed a person in that fight. If may not be 1st degree murder, but a strong 2nd degree murder charge.
The Sun article on the prevalence of cell phones in prisons left me wanting a little bit more information about "technological fixes" and reasons for non-deployment. Based on what little I know of cell phone jammers, they vary in power and size, and thus the area in which the jamming signal interferes with cell phones. If cell phone jammers with the range of a football field were placed inside several wings of a state prison, and a few out in the yards, I think the problem would largely be solved. I may be wrong, but I can't imagine that communites and homes fall within 300 feet of prison walls.
As for fraudulent and illegal use of the landlines, it seems simple enough: just prohibit phone calls. Or, allow each prisoner to put two numbers on his "card": e.g. his mom and his girlfriend. When he enters, he can only call the numbers on the card. Obviously, there are ways around even this, but to continue allowing inmates the privilege to continue criminal ways inside prisons is inexcusable.
The problem with cell phone jammers is that you might end up screwing with the radios that COs use. I'm not sure what sorts of radios the Maryland DOC uses or on what frequency band they operate at, and it's probably theoretically possible to jam only cell phone signals, but an absolutely foolproof system could get very expensive. Some public safety UHF radios are in a part of the spectrum that's right in between frequency bands used by cell phones.
The way things are now prisoners will always find a way to communicate with the outside world, and no technological solution will ever change that. As with most crime problems the best way to deal with it is through much harsher punishments. Make the possesion of a cell phone by a prisoner a felony punishable by an additional five years of no parole time. Anyone caught with contraband should not be allowed any more visitors, ever. Any prisoners with gang affiliations should be prohibited from using telephones at all. Prisons in general are far too lax and cushy. I bet that 95% of prison violence would go away if we made inmates perform hard physical labor 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. Inmates would be too exhausted to engage in hoodlumery.
I nominate P.Patin for appointment to the Parole Board.
'Let those bastards rot in Hell forever!'
i agree completely. there should also be no visitors during the first year of a sentence, period.
furthermore, except for prisoners who have proven that they can behave, no email, no computers, nothnig of the sort. no cable tv either.
the government proves that it deals with prisoners the way that lazy parents deal with their children: give them what they want to try and tempt them not to misbehave.
it instills in them the idea that they can get away with anything (sometimes even murder) if they act out enough.
prison could indeed be a great deterrent. i for one am scared S**tless of the place, but for many it's better than home.
"prison could indeed be a great deterrent. i for one am scared S**tless of the place, but for many it's better than home."
That's another problem with our prison system: the nastier you are the less it sucks for you. If a normally law-abiding citizen who fucked up once ends up in prison, god help him. On the other hand, if you're a career violent felon and end up doing a few years of hard time you'll probably receive much better treatment from your fellow inmates.
Yet another problem is that our system is too cheap to punish most people property while they're doing their time, so instead they just make it impossible for people to earn a livelihood once they do time for a felony. I think prison sentences should be tougher, the conditions should be harsher and discipline should be much stricter, BUT once you do your time & pay your debt to society and IF you keep your nose clean once you get out I don't think your past should be held against you for the rest of your life (unless of course you're a murderer or a violent rapist, in which case you should never be let out of prison in the first place).
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