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Monday, July 23, 2007

 
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILD (NON) SUPPORT

The article South South Carolina Child (Non) Support states:

In fiscal 2006, the Department of Social Services collected $253,901,823 in child support.

As of April 30, DSS has 152,162 active child support cases statewide. Of those, 125,102 parents are collectively $1,178,157,745 behind in payments.

Lowcountry breakdown:

Given that our taxes both pay the child support for the "Deadbeats" and pay the costs of incarcerating them, wouldn't it be a good idea to spend some of the taxpayer's money on helping teach young fathers job skills so that they earn money and stay out of jail and teaching young mothers how to avoid unwanted pregnancies?

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

 
MORE THAN 550 INMATES SUE SC PRISON SYSTEM FOR OVERCROWDING & SAFETY ISSUES

This was bound to happen. As we overload the couty jail system with petty offenders we must transfer more and more inmates to the state prisons. We cannot build prisons fast enough to hold everyone and still stay within the bounds of the law.

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