I wholeheartedly disagree. It keeps sexual offenders off the streets. It also keeps murderers, thieves, and various other violent people off the streets. That does a great service to the law abiding members of society.
john legality, you are talking about laws that may still be "on the books" in Massachusetts but are no longer enforced (or enforceable). These types of laws still exist in many states (and even stranger ones that might have had some purpose long ago but are no longer relevant).
State legislatures can work to eliminate the unenforceable, antiquated laws that exist without reason, but legislators apparently have better things to do with their time (what those better things are is subject to question, however
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I wasn't the one playing with underage minors. You reap what you sow.
Oh all the posts you've made, I will agree with this one 100%. The last 3 House Speakers convicted by the feds, the late Senator Chappaquidick...well that one's too easy, Former Rep. Bonnie Fwank and his then boyfriend running a brothel in their apartment and then his current boyfriend growing a pot farm, Rep. Tierney's Sgt Shultz routine on his wife laundering illegal overseas gambling money for her brother, Fmr Senate President Bulger almost assuredly aiding his brother Whitey......
That doesn't meant the state is full of that sort of people. Just the state government.
why would you say this? i thanked you for your link, it was about their mail policy and what they are allowed/not allowed to do with it. I found a great article from the ACLU about how they were challenging the postcard policy in anotehr state and how it was changed. I would like to thank you again, i contacted the ACLU to see if they can help this situation.
thank you for such a considerate and way of looking at this. More empathy in this world would be nice. Maybe it says something about society by how it treats even its most malevolent characters
this is completely off the subject; but do honestly think all that is keeping murders, thieves and violence off the streets is the fear or the legal system? the last time i checked, jails have a 95% return rate. If you were even partly normal when you became incarcerated, you may leave a totally different person. I suppose your answer to this would to exasperate the penalties and become more barbaric- this theory is where we are today and it clearly isnt "correcting" anyone. It is in my opinion that there will always be a small minority of criminals out there; hearing you take personal pleasure seeing them be punished may make me question if you yourself are on the boundary of that minority.
again this is entirely off the subject, please allow me to stand on a soap box for a moment- but i expect prisoners to do their time without the fear of being raped or murdered. There should be a sense of security in a place as secure as a jail. When judges and state attorneys throw away non violent offender to the the department of corrections; its not only the mental anguish of being incarcerated they have to worry about. A 2 year term can turn into a life sentence. There is no secret about how broken DOC is, the legal system uses it as an advantage. That is why IMO if the inmate is raped, injured or murdered- everyone involved in sentencing would be an accessory because the DOC is a system of punishment and it rewards as well as works with psychopathic behavior. Because of this, statistically more men in this country are raped than women. So why arent they proud of this statistic? Why isnt it proudly displayed on the courtroom marble facade; "Commit a crime, get raped or killed" or on the prison entrance "torturing people is legal after you enter these gates, we need you!". I would like to see a society that rehabilitates its failures and helps to reintegrate them back into normal life.