Get Out Of Jail Free Card

[torrey]

Get Out Of Jail Card

I'm always trying to think of alternative policy to replace bad policy It is easy to say we need to change and eliminate the prison system that is not working but hard to think of something to replace it with. Management courses taught that brainstorming comes up with out rages goofy ideas but sometimes an excellent idea will pop out.

Lets Brain storm some ideas around in here. There are a couple of rules. First rule no idea is wrong. Second listen to all ideas without criticism. No one's idea gets shot down. We have to look at all as a possible answer. This takes away the fear that someone will be made fun of or ridiculed. This fear suppresses creativity where wonderful ideas are born.

Let's Play I'm first. ( I like to say that) LOL

The Government should assign a FREE GET OUT OF JAIL CARD to every citizen that is registered to vote. Issued with your ID # and thumb print, and picture. So no one can steal it, sell it, counterfeit it, and use it under pretense. This card cannot be used for yourself, no one in prison can use it. Instead it is used to "check and Balance the justice system" It will be a check on the juries of our peers and the Judge. If you believe with out a doubt someone in prison is innocent or rehabilitated you can use the GET OUT OF JAIL CARD and free this person. No red tape to it. Go up to the Prison with your idea and card sign him out and he can walk out.

There is a price though. The world will know you released the prisoner so you will be responsible for his actions for the rest of your life. If the person you released robs, rapes, murders, kidnaps, breaks the law in any way You will be held totally publicly, monetary, morally, responsible. To the extinct that you could be charged with his new crimes right along with the X-prisoner.

Ok with that stipulation who would you use your GET OUT OF JAIL CARD on?

[torrey]

OOOps

I forgot to answer who I would use my GET OUT OF JAIL CARD ON.


Leonard Peltier is a Native American PP imprisoned for the 1975 shoot-out between the FBI and the American Indian Movement (AIM) in which two federal agents and an Native American man were killed. Four years after his incarceration, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit released documents which prove Leonard Peltier's innocence and FBI's targeting of the activist. Leonard was a close associate of Dennis Banks (one of the founders of AIM).

[Amelia]

Well here is my answer: I would get my Stephen out ( big surprise huh?) but only because I truly feel deep in my soul he has seen that his actions dont pay and values our family and children more than anything for the first time...I would just keep very close tabs on him....be very scary though..I think this would be a wonderful idea..wish it would happen ...

[Shortie]

well I would say that I would get out Anthony. I know he will be getting out but I think that he has changed and I want to give him the oppertunity to prove it.

[jdswifey02]

OK Shortie and Amelia... I am glad you answered the way you did because I was feeling selfish when my gut response is that I would get JD out after Torrey's very educated response.... While I don't at all minimize the cost of JD's actions so many years ago, I can't help but feel as if he has paid a big enough price for his act as a 14 year old child... Despite growing up in prison, he has turned out to be a wonderful man and I think that he does deserve the chance to be a productive member of society... but he will do this in due time and even then I feel as if I am going to have to help "raise" him all over again and will definitely feel the need to keep a "close eye" on him as he adjusts to living life on the outside as a man, and not a child, which is the only way he has experienced the outside world. I am sure if I were more informed I would find individuals who deserve that "get out of jail free" card much more than JD... such as someone who was truly wrongfully convicted and completely innocent of any criminal act.

[sherri13]

IT'S KIND OF HARD TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION SUBJECTIVELY....

SHERRI

[sherri13]

BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING IDEA.....