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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 242701" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>Until our grandson was labeled "a felon" my husband and I (both with some education, avid readers and generally considered well informed) thought that felons were murderers, rapists etc. with a few dangerous others tossed into the mix. We truly did not know that 16, 17, 18 and 19 year olds were being labeled felons for totally non-violent minor drug issues etc. Really. We also believed in the simple concept of good guys and bad guys. The court system subdivided those people. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":redface:" title="redface :redface:" data-shortname=":redface:" /></p><p> </p><p>We were unbelieveably naive. Maybe we were just blessed that non of our family members were ever caught with pot etc. when we raised the first six teens! Oh yeah, we also believed that the Judges were trained to judge. We didn't know that many Judges so strongly favored the States Attorneys and we absolutely did not realize that Legislators would ever be able to enact "blanket laws" the prevent the qualified judges from doing their job to benefit the population. </p><p> </p><p>So.....I don't believe in the Legislature usurping the division of powers that sets the Judicial system apart from the Executive and Legislative branch. I do believe that common sense shows that building more and more prisons for more and more <strong>non-violent </strong>prisoners only builds the power of law enforcement to the detriment of social services. In side by side articles in the newspaper today there was an article showing the increase in the prison population adjacent to a big article about the cut in funding for the disabled in our state. It is sad and scarey, in my humble opinion. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 242701, member: 35"] Until our grandson was labeled "a felon" my husband and I (both with some education, avid readers and generally considered well informed) thought that felons were murderers, rapists etc. with a few dangerous others tossed into the mix. We truly did not know that 16, 17, 18 and 19 year olds were being labeled felons for totally non-violent minor drug issues etc. Really. We also believed in the simple concept of good guys and bad guys. The court system subdivided those people. :blushing: We were unbelieveably naive. Maybe we were just blessed that non of our family members were ever caught with pot etc. when we raised the first six teens! Oh yeah, we also believed that the Judges were trained to judge. We didn't know that many Judges so strongly favored the States Attorneys and we absolutely did not realize that Legislators would ever be able to enact "blanket laws" the prevent the qualified judges from doing their job to benefit the population. So.....I don't believe in the Legislature usurping the division of powers that sets the Judicial system apart from the Executive and Legislative branch. I do believe that common sense shows that building more and more prisons for more and more [B]non-violent [/B]prisoners only builds the power of law enforcement to the detriment of social services. In side by side articles in the newspaper today there was an article showing the increase in the prison population adjacent to a big article about the cut in funding for the disabled in our state. It is sad and scarey, in my humble opinion. DDD [/QUOTE]
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