early release
rappers
false savings
Very few rappers agree with Rhode Island’s plan to save money by letting prisoners out of the ACI early.
mr rapp why would we want to have early release for prisoners when 75% of the prison population ends up back in prison with in the first 2 months of being release there is enough crime on the streets without adding more i say build another prison if there isn’nt enought room in our prisons and but the prisoners to work all over rhode island streets not just the highways there is trash on all are streets mostly in low income cities and i think rhode island should but more of the prisoners on the city streets not just highways and lets get rhode island streets clean
vinman
Yes! But only on good behavior. It should also depend on how bad there crime was. If the ACI is getting to full and it’s costing so much money then why do they still send them there?!
Joey B
WELL, I was the first one to vote tonight LOL.
Anyway, No I do not believe inmates should be let out early. They were sentenced for a reason and by empting out the ACI that just dumps MORE problems out onto this state.
Crime is already up.
Here in Coventry 2 times in the last week and a half my neighborhood has been hit with people going into cars and taking stuff. Like GPS units Expensive radios and elctronics. This is a quiet area, we have lived here since 1995 and this is the first time anything like this has happened.
With all the unrest and the economy the way it is these people have NO training NO jobs and are elegible for NOTHING in aid thanks to the rich man from E.G. it leaves we the people open to having our hard earned lives really messed up.
Judith, Coventry.
Yes, of course! They will need to make room for all the State legislators!
Bill, Cranston
Good grief! Who comes up with these ideas? People have been sent to jail for a reason. Talk about sending the WRONG message!
Kristin P, Coventry
NO. - IF THE STATE WANTS TO CHANGE SENTENCING LAWS,
THEY SHOULD DO THAT THROUGH LEGISLATION. OTHERWISE,
TO SIMPLY LET PRISONERS GO “EARLY” TO SAVE MONEY FLYS IN THE FACE OF THE JUDGES, JURY’S AND VICTIMS OF CRIME.
Bill
No, I don’t think prisoners should be released early for any reason. The best way to save the state money is for all the fancy cars and trucks to be taken away from state workers, most of which are gas guzzlers. I always see them in the stores parking lots or at Dunkin Donuts, or out for a drive on a weekend day. Tell me that is state business! DEM just got a load of new vehicles, what was wrong with the ones they had? Let the state workers pay for their own cell phones, let them pay for some of their own health insurance, I know there must be a million ways the governor could save money without hurting the aged or handicapped. Why is it they always go after the ones who need it the most! Take from the poor and give to the rich! Yeah, that makes sense! Anyway, how about he let go of some of his own job perks! He went on a trip to Iraq, why! That must of cost the tax payer a pretty penny. It’s not like he solved a major problem by going. Letting prisoners out early really isn’t a way to stop crime, stop repeat offenders, or protect the public. Let’s spend the money where it is truly needed, stop spending it were it is not and take away all these job perks that are ridiculous and there will be no problems with the budget. Tough times call for tough measures and that means for all of us including state workers and friends and relations of people holding state offices. I think it’s about time to stop cutting programs that are truly needed, enough is enough!
RS
No. There are not enough consequences for misbehavior as it is. Letting prisoners out early only says that their crime is ok and not important. Letting them out early will cause more crimes to be committed.
D.A.
sounds like a future case for more funding on prisons when criminals are let loose, instead of working on prevention and real rehabilitation in the community.
With no share in the community but compelled to monotonous toil on the plantation with no shared prosperity; working for the plantation to make the rich richer becomes a futile attempt to make ends meet.Setting fires to abandoned buildings for the landlords to collect insurance money or selling your body to a politician may look like a more viable option than serving the plantation. There needs to be a redistribution of wealth where the underclass won’t venture into criminal behavior to eke out an existence.
5 percent of the world’s population but more prisoners than Russia and China combined. What is wrong with that picture?
Zuke
I think that judges have too much latitude when handing out sentences.
If someone is put in jail for a non-violent crime he/she should be given
a chance to show he/she is worthy of early release. The jails are overloaded
with people caught for minor first time offenses, like a small amount of marijuana.
I don’t think anybody wants to spend even one day in jail.
“affordable housing in RI”
Stuckinri
Absolutely Not! I don’t care how bad the budget crisis is, we need to teach these criminals that if they have done something wrong they are going to be held accountable. I don’t care how petty the offence, they need to learn that it is unacceptable. It is the state’s job to keep us safe, they will be spending more money if they let these criminals out and get arrested again and have to go back through the court system. It is time for the legislature to get going and find better ways to trim this budget! My generation will be stuck trying to fix it, and it is not looking so good for the legislature 10 years from know, half the kids in my high school, do not even know who Govenor is never mind the Senate President, and the Speaker of the House.
Dan, Coventry
A John Lennon - House of Reps.resolve:
A.T.Wall / Governor
correctional officers / High School Liaisons
ACI / condos
Expunged Inmates / outstanding citizens
Imagine / living somewhere else
B.Mac, Cumberland,RI