Extraordinary "This American Life" today - "Very Tough Love"

[cbayer]

Huge kudos to Ira Glass for this. It needs to go viral.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/430/very-tough-love

This week: A drug court program that we believe is run differently from every other drug court in the country, doing some things that are contrary to the very philosophy of drug court. The result? People with offenses that would get minimal or no sentences elsewhere sometimes end up in the system five to ten years.

[hedgehog]

1. I listened to that, too. It sounds as if some of the sentences are

random - like the judge was having a bad hair day or something and took it out on the defendants. When the judge says she understands addictions because her own husband is an alcoholic, all my alarm bells went off.

[cbayer]

2. I think she is evil and a megalomaniac. Her power and her abuse of power are unbelievable.

[Taverner]

3. Typical bullshit. Fascism is alive and kicking and it calls itself the war on drugs

[cbayer]

4. This is much worse than "typical", imo. This is the worst kind of corrupt judge out there -

and she is ruining lives. She is a monster and needs to be stopped.

[Taverner]

5. There are many folks who are taking advantage of the "War on Drugs"

If I remember, there are a few Judges who are investors in a local prison-for-profit ... and have sentenced according to their profit motive

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. that judge that's on trial for sending kids to private jails owned by his buddies was doing

the same thing. harsh sentences that ruined lives.

[Starboard Tack]

6. This judge is totally corrupt check this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAspOFW7vW0