If you have a son or daughter attending Columbia University, you might want to read this Fox News article.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/19/columbia-cons-ivy-league-social-work-program-run-by-team-former-prisoners/
Ah yes. The halls of Ivy- the perfect second career for all those Weather Underground terrorists of the 1960s and 1970s. The above article adequately lists the examples, so I won't add to that, but I do find it ridiculous that a supposedly prestigious university like Columbia has faculty who are ex-cons running a program that teaches students that there are too many people incarcerated in Amerika. (spelling mine).
The problem is that we have too many criminals in this country, and they belong in prison. Out here in California, they are releasing them in droves because the judges are ruling that the prisons are overcrowded, and at the rate of $50,000 spent per prisoner, the state is going broke-for many other reasons as well. So they simply release them into the community to commit more crimes.
But I digress.
This is just another example of how our universities are poisoning the minds of our young people and making them think they live in an evil country. At Columbia, they now use ex-cons with fancy degrees to pound that message into the brains of our students.
It is disgusting.
the judges are ruling that the prisons are overcrowded, and at the rate of $50,000 spent per prisoner, the state is going broke-
ReplyDeleteThe prisons ARE overcrowded, grotesquely so. If you want to incarcerate more people, you'd better be ready to pay the taxes necessary to house them all. Frankly, I think they should all have single cells --- TINY ones, just big enough for one person. It would cut down on some categories of criminal victimization of fellow prisoners.
Or, if you don't want to pay what providing enough floor space and beds to hold them all would cost, we must make smart choices about who REALLY needs to be in prison, and what we could do with the rest for less than $50,000 a year.
The story has this sentence, "It lists among its goals helping to forge a solution for “a central social crisis of our time, mass incarceration.”
ReplyDeleteSo the problem, the most important to them, is incarceration, not the crimes they committed. It is a central tenant of the liberal left to dismiss personal responsibility for whatever you do. It looks like they have gone from excusing crime because of social circumstances to just railing against imprisonment itself. Consequences is a concept unknown on the left.
I believe they had to basically give up the society's fault because of all the people in the world who are worse off than them but still don't commit violent crimes.
This is tied to the administration's suit to forbid inquiry into prior convictions in hiring because it is discriminatory. So now the government can force you to hire those they are partial to. Anything to get yet another dependent constituency.
I hope the country can survive this administration.
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Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteTexas spends less than $20,000 per prisoner. As for their cells, I say let them sleep on top of each other. They do anyway.