Study says parole should return. Except for…
A study by Right on Crime suggests that Parole should return to Florida’s correctional system.
Florida abolished parole in 1983 but has since seen it’s prison population explode without any improvement to public safety. Parole would enable inmates to seek release after 60% of their time has been completed. The study recommends violent crimes and “sexual offenses” be ineligible.
I expect there will be 6 other messages saying similarly to mine.
Of course it should. Let’s make though that we do not under any circumstances let people know that our entire system for sex crimes is based on bs, bad laws, misinformation, tactics that are in the end just a way to funnel money from the feds to local sherriff. Let’s not let people know that the leaders in Florida have done nothing to stimulate economic growth in our poorer counties, but instead have prisons but to keep half the panhandle alive. By no means look at individuals and their work to better themselves in prison. Do not look at the recidivism rates of those offense. By no means bring back drug programs, real education options, trade skills that are in demand. Do not actually pay the guards and staff a decent wage to prevent such staffing issues as we currently have. Let’s forget that care, custody, and control is the motto and should be looked at and followed in that order. Have some transparency with invested leaders of it communities through it the state, remind them 85% will be back on streets one day so since FDOC had no idea on rehabilitation and reintegration, you could use some help.
The system monetizes human beings. Old, young, male, female, black white and green. Society is so misinformed about the reality of this. They are numb to what constitutes legal punishment and human rights violations. Social media proves that.
This plan as I read it, which is admitted a very short synopsis, will make our communities less safe. It will allow people with little to no rehabilitation effort being put into or from that person, a person with no plan. That person will be released, expected to get a job and pay supervision fees. We are creating more victims. How can people not see that crimes of theft, often drug related, will be let it early. Because they deserve “a second chance”. No skills, no plan, no options, that person will go back to what they know. Drugs, use, sell or both. Rob others for money.
One might argue I’m generalizing. Ok, but isn’t that what they do by excluding parole for the lowest rate of reoffending crimes? I can prove my points with statistics and logic. Can they?
I mean they don’t do anything for us anyway. Towards the end of my sentence while everyone else was signing up for work release I had to stay behind, only to see one by one many of the inmates return by not following the “rules” ( I did my probation without a single technical). Again towards the end of my sentence they had us on call out to get our new ID cards, unless you were a sex offender one more thing they stack against us. So when we leave prison we are given 50 dollars and a bus ticket , which getting a new license is on us. There goes the 50 dollars they given me while other inmates were not burden with that. At what point will the politicians just come out and say they want to punish us indefinitely.
Easily understandable due to the high recidivism rate.
(Sarcasm very intentional!)
It’s like what 1% or 2% for those convicted of sexual offenses?? 🙄
(If there is any silver lining for convicted sexual offenders/ registrants, it is that eternally punishing us is wasting a fortune for torch & pitchfork mob taxpayers.)
David
I also think it is ironic that so many things the U.S does, other countries copy us. We, as far as I know, came up with the idea of sex offender registries now that are tons of other countries doing the same. When I was first put on the registry, I had zero problems going to another country. Now there are very few who will let us in. THAT was not their idea though, they got pressure from the U.S to stop us. Then why the Hell let us pay and get on the plane in the first place??????????????
They already did that with covid and Prison staff shortages. They closed tons of prisons in Florida and early released many inmates. From what the news said, NONE were sex offenders. They released several felons who had been in and out of the system many times, yet someone with a first-time sex offense was not eligible.
So yeah it is like a show I was every weekend where they feature former felons trying to get back on their feet. The motto of the show is “Everyone deserves a second chance”. I have been watching this show for years now and not once has any of the featured released inmates they helped, have a sex offense or charge.
Guess the ratings of the show would be affected or something. They need to stop saying everyone deserves a 2nd chance when the show itself won’t give any of us one. The state won’t, the judges won’t, the law makers won’t, The sheriff’s office won’t. Heck this article says it all, even the prisons won’t.
With the recidivism rate of 3%, why exclude sex offenses? Murder and sex offenses have the lowest rate of recidivism.
It is not 3% for a lifetime, but is still very low when you compare it to other crimes.