tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368160828091722393.post1332538503207260593..comments2024-03-08T01:54:55.870-05:00Comments on Baltimore Criminal Justice Blogger Page Croyder: The Price of EnlightenmentPage Croyderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13005710168659844334noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368160828091722393.post-41883407611638892402010-12-01T00:11:19.359-05:002010-12-01T00:11:19.359-05:00Maybe we can have our cake and eat it too. If we ...Maybe we can have our cake and eat it too. If we want more room in prison for dangerous criminals, maybe we can make that room by decriminalizing non-violent drug addicts. How do we help them or ourselves by locking them up in the same facilities as armed robbers, murderers, and rapists?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368160828091722393.post-86766223555064405652010-10-19T20:48:49.190-04:002010-10-19T20:48:49.190-04:00This whole business of "diminution credits&qu...This whole business of "diminution credits" needs to be re-thought and reworked. Of course, it is realized that good behavior needs to be reinforced by some positive mechanism, because the correctional officers who are good, like murdered C/O McGuinn, are outnumbered and, often unsupported because higher management often turns a blind eye to lower level problems.<br />On the other hand, once you've been released, that should be it! Any diminution credits you may have should be wiped out. You should not be able to apply these to future charges and convictions. <br />And, if judges are not going to deal with parole violation and have already determined the retake warrant will be merged with whatever, what's the point in having them on parole, or, for that matter, even violating them.<br />This whole approach does not to anything to "correct" behavior by sentencing t the Division of Correction. It becomes a numbers game of paperwork processing.<br /><br />Anybody with any experience in criminal justice, except those who are naive or blinded by their own ideology, can, after a few minutes determine miscreants who are violent, incorrigible, and likely repeat offenders. And, frankly, we don't really know how to rehabilitate some of them. Clearly dimunition credits, meaningless parole, and unenforced probations are not teh way.<br /><br />On the otherr hand, we, Marylanders, the Taxpayers, need to look in the mirror as we whine. Citizens of the wealthiest state do not want their taxes raised to pay for more prisoners. Wonder if someone has told some judges that!?buzoncrimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00222344932427990980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5368160828091722393.post-34454939114684083782010-10-15T18:21:22.033-04:002010-10-15T18:21:22.033-04:00With the trial layers running the Maryland General...With the trial layers running the Maryland General Assembly, we will never get meaningful and needed reform of the criminal statutes and parole procedures. Maryland needs to do what they federal government did in the 1980's...no parole, no early out....what you get is what you serve. And in a typical ploy of the MO'M administration, anyone who even utters a word of criticism is summarily dismissed. Maryland voters keep putting the coyotes in the hen house and wonder why the chickens are dead. Another outstanding blog, Page.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10206873141909267792noreply@blogger.com