Does anyone go to jail anymore???

[Lawdog]

https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/repeat-dui-offender-sentenced-to-no-jail-after-mowing-down-chp-officer-4H4W0l7TJkewnq0PKMe6HA/

 

[Badlands Bob #61228]

Sounds like somebody well connected made a phone call.

[Utah Bob #35998]

California.

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Gee... I wonder if she had to make bail... 

 

 

[Clay Mosby]

I know it's not totally true, but these days it feels like only conservatives go to jail. 

[Pat Riot]

Believe it or not you have to pay the county and state for “your care” for every day that you are in jail in California. So, if an attorney can manipulate a judge into allowing you to go free because you cannot afford to go to jail then you can get light bull s*** sentences like that drunken hag.

 

You can Thank a certain type of politician for this kind of injustice. 

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

8 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

California.

 

There's no more 'bail' in PRK, thanks to Moonbean. 

OLG

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

6 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

There's no more 'bail' in PRK, thanks to Moonbean. 

OLG

 

Fewer people in jail. Mo' money for choo-choo.  

[Pat Riot]

7 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

There's no more 'bail' in PRK, thanks to Moonbean. 

OLG

 

51 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

Fewer people in jail. Mo' money for choo-choo.  

This wasn't bail...This was sentencing! Crazy!

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

29 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

 

This wasn't bail...This was sentencing! Crazy!

 

Listening to an interview right now with the Sheriff... many, many aspects of this bill were evidently not thought out at all, with a flood of "unanticipated consequences" expected.

 

It ain't good.

 

As I've said before... every time I think this state cannot go any faster down the Highway to Hell, they open a new lane.  

[Sixgun Sheridan]

Here's another one. A woman who can't stay off the bottle and has been arrested in seven states for DUI has gotten off yet again:

 

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/08/27/one-of-the-worst-drunk-driving-offenders-in-us-avoids-prison-time-after-arrest-in-seventh-different-state/23510521/

 

People don't seem to understand that it's our pathetically lenient penal system that makes this country the laughing stock of the world, not our supposedly weak gun laws. We seem too willing to coddle criminals and "give them another chance", over and over and over.

[Duffield, SASS #23454]

What happens when she violates her probation?

 

Duffield

[Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217]

I've thought of some positives for CA.. If the person is guilty and fears jail, they may flee to another state or country. The positives for CA are less people to support in prison. Less court costs. Less petty criminals.

 

Alas, there are negatives for us too. More petty criminals on the loose. Petty criminals may only be petty as no one has discovered their heinous crimes. Bail bondsmen no longer provide free tracking and capture of people who don't show up in court.

 

I'm sure there are many more considerations.

 

Needless to say, I think it stinks.

[Clay Mosby]

Not much I can say that wouldn't get me in trouble.