It’s rather interesting how things have changed over the last five decades. At one point in time, murderers were routinely executed or if they were spared the death penalty, they never ever got out of prison before they were old and decrepit. Simple robberies left the criminals counting the decades they needed to spend before their release. Yet, once they got out, there was no parole, or rather it was used sparingly and only on those who truly were repentant and willing to give society the best they had left. People then treated those who were released as having paid their debt to society and that was the end of it. Well, actually people did keep an eye on the former felons, but in essence they were considered rehabilitated and able to rejoin society with all of the benefits that they enjoyed before their incarceration.
Yet today, that is no longer the case as we watch killer after killer, rapist after rapist, and who knows what else commit their crimes, spend a few years in the pen and then be set free with all of the restrictions and rules as set forth by the state parole board. In the county I live in, we have so many burglaries and thefts that the police no longer actually travel to the crime scene, but rather ask us to drive to the county building and file a report. On one particular day, we had an air conditioning unit stolen and as I quietly filled out the police report, I learned that on that day alone four others had been stolen. At that point I knew that there would be no justice in my case and took the case number and filed it away as being a pointless waste of time.(read more here)
Redgage picture of the day---(white flower)
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