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In reply to the discussion: 16-year-old sent to Utah prison for 15 years after judge changes terms of plea deal [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)3. The for-profit prison system will soon make your prediction quite true, I'm afraid
I said on DU years ago that more and more people were gonna end up in poverty, losing their jobs, their homes, and I was ignored. Those who felt 'safe" ridiculed such a thought.
"If you only work hard" and all that blather.
Many of those posters have left DU - I can only assume they are ashamed to now have to eat their words.
Now, we've let our politicians approve for-profit prisons, and states must guarantee a certain percentage of prisoners to the corporations. it's the modern day Human Sacrifice to the Gods of the Next Quarter's Earnings.
States like Tennessee have nearly made every poor person a felon by now, and they are running out of warm bodies to exploit for profit.
You middle class folks believe they are gonna go after the rich next?
Very soon, the middle class is gonna end up in our barbaric, Dark Ages-style prison matrix, and then maybe we will see the American populace finally revolt and drive off the exploiters and the abusers and the torturers and the War on Some Drugs Warriors.
It will be a fine day to see the corrupt judges, the evil DAs, the sadistic prison guards and the malevolent law enforcement run for their lives as the masses chase them to the guillotines.....
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16-year-old sent to Utah prison for 15 years after judge changes terms of plea deal [View all]
villager
May 2014
OP
The for-profit prison system will soon make your prediction quite true, I'm afraid
Tsiyu
May 2014
#3
That "nice, sweet young boy" robbing people at gunpoint is "really soft and tender emotionally".
DetlefK
May 2014
#5
Umm, you asked my opinion on something, then get upset when I say I need more info to judge?
Lee-Lee
May 2014
#48
The appropriate sentence was the one the prosecutor and defense agreed upon.
former9thward
May 2014
#55
At first I thought he was just a burglar and I was going to say 15 years is way too much
stevenleser
May 2014
#15
Why is there no chance of that? He will probably be out by age 21 if not sooner.
stevenleser
May 2014
#18
Punk's victims probably also "cried and begged for mercy." This wasn't shoplifting.
WinkyDink
May 2014
#19
Well, given that the judge already overrode a *plea bargain* agreed to by all sides...
villager
May 2014
#28
The "nice, sweet young boy" should have stayed home instead of participating in a home invasion.
LisaL
May 2014
#31
well whatever you think of the sentence and the conditions, he's getting out in 15 years
CreekDog
May 2014
#34