Saturday, March 15, 2008
BERKELEY COULD SEEK JAIL BIDS SOON
The Post and Courier reports Berkeley could seek jail bids soon. lillycollette posted the following comment to the article:
The Post and Courier reports Berkeley could seek jail bids soon. lillycollette posted the following comment to the article:
While we would not have said it so strongly, Lilly is correct in her assessment about the sometimes arbitrary contempt rulings in the Family Court. This issue should be explored thoroughly, especially when the Berkeley County Supervisor is suggesting that county citizens only receive part of the property tax rebate they anticipated receiving.Of equal importance is the need to severely curtail the --unbridled abuse -- of the powers of contempt by family court judges.
Facing a population crisis in our county jails we cannot continue to tolerate these idiotic morons being allowed to indiscriminately lock people up on the whim of “Because I said so”. Where these judges do not follow the law that is exactly what they are doing.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
SOME MORE LILLY COMMENTS
Lilly Collette used to post comments on this Blog. But not lately. We would like to hear from her again. This is what she had to say about Public safety chiefs out in The Post and Courier:
Sanford said: "We are sending a clear and unequivocal signal that unacceptable behavior won't be tolerated. … I think it is important that we send an unequivocally clear signal, not just to folks in law enforcement but to society at large, that there are certain bridges we must not cross, particularly if you're wearing the uniform that comes with it the power of the state.”
Another uniform that carries the authority of the state is a “judicial robe”. James Schweitzer’s removal was apparently in relation to failures of effective management.
However, depraved scum of the family court bench is allowed to illegally use Bailiffs and Sheriff’s deputies to enforce corrupt acts with impunity.
One case in point: unmarried and childless man forced to suffer over 20 years of extortion by corrupt court under guise of child support for a child that was a physical impossibility for him to have sired—with no hearing on the merits and no order of child support in existence.Sanford has an equal duty to remove these scum-sucking bottom feeders from the bench.Failure to do so sends the message that it is better to throw innocent people into slavery than to call them by the “N” word.
While James Schweitzer may feel that his removal is “politics at its worst” I assure him—IT IS NOT.
Labels: Institutional Mismanagement, Misconduct
Saturday, March 01, 2008
GOVERNOR SANFORD LIKES MOST OF BUDGET
According the The Post and Courier, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford likes most of budget. He did, however, express "concern about the proposed spending for the state's prison system. He noted that the national average is to spend $62.22 per inmate per day, while South Carolina spends about $45.02. The proposed budget would spend $43.94, which Sanford said could jeopardize the safety of inmates and prison workers."
We wonder if the Governor* and the Legislature have yet realized that a new study says 1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars. This study suggests that we, as a society, can no longer afford to incarcerate everyone who owes child support. Instead, we have to be selective and begin to use the coercive powers of Civil Contempt more judiciously to obtain compliance with Court Orders, not simply to punish.
*Ironically, while Governor Sanford is pushing for enhanced DUI penalties, The Pew Institute Report recommended diverting nonviolent offenders away from prison and using punishments short of reincarceration for minor or technical violations of probation or parole. The Report noted that, on average, states spend almost 7 percent on their budgets on corrections, trailing only healthcare, education and transportation. Much of those budgets are devoted to incarcerating DUI offenders. For example, as John Whitmire, a Democratic state senator from Houston and the chairman of the state senate’s criminal justice committee is quoted in The New York Times article: “We have 5,500 D.W.I offenders in prison [including people caught driving under the influence who had not been in an accident.] They’re in the general population. As serious as drinking and driving is, we should segregate them and give them treatment.”
