[NEohioPAL] Libraries

[Christopher Fortunato]

What do you do with the "non-violent" offender that committed his seventh "non-violent" offense?  You have to incarcerate someone like that as a judge did with my client about a week ago.  If probation and its attendant programs don't work, then a time out is about the only thing. 

 

Usually the person that calls for that kind of leniency does not mind that as long as it's not in her neighborhood.  Cleveland Heights is the Berkeley of Cleveland yet it has one of the strictest police departments around.
 
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:42:56 -0400
> From: conspicuouschick at gmail.com
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] Libraries
> 
> You also might want to do some research on how many nonviolent
> offenders are currently clogging up our prison system. We are not
> rehabilitating these individuals, nor are we protecting society by
> keeping them incarcerated. We are simply wasting money that could be
> put to much better use (including libraries).
> 
> >From 1985 to 2000, Ohio increased spending on corrections at five
> times the rate that it increased spending on higher education. (from a
> JPI, Justice Policy Institute report)
> 
> >From http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/AnEconomyThatWorks.pdf (2007):
> 
> The state will spend $1.7 billion on the Department of Rehabilitation
> and Corrections in 2007. But nearly a third (30.8 percent) of male
> offenders and more than a third (36 percent) of female offenders are
> non-violent offenders, whose most serious crime was drug-related.
> (Black, Maureen, (Deputy Director, office of Policy of ODRC) Ohio
> Corrections Research Compendium, Volume II, April 2004, page 10, at
> http://www.drc.state.oh.us/web/Reports/compendium2004.pdf, accessed
> November 2006.)
> 
> California’s diversion program was found to save seven dollars for
> every dollar spent (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
> Substance Abuse and Mental Administration, Abuse Treatments for Adults
> in the Criminal Justice System, 2005.)
> 
> Drug addiction is a disease, physical as well as psychological, and
> addicts can procure far more substances in prison than out. The
> fiscally responsible thing to do is treat them so they can become
> tax-paying citizens and not a drain on our state's resources.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Michael A.
> Miller<msrg-publications at cox.net> wrote:
> > Yeah, libraries are more important than State Parks. Sorry.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Tom Burnett
> > To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] Libraries
> >
> > You will make no impact at all unless your "Don't cut off the libraries!" is
> > accompanied by
> > some viable suggestion as to what to do to generate that money. Raising taxes in a down economy is a bad idea, so you're going to have to suggest which budget item
> > or
> > items should be cut to keep that $200+ million coming to the state's libraries.
> > Cut
> > Medicaid? Close all the state parks? Close prisons and put the convicts into crowded cells
> > at the other prisons, or release hundreds or thousands of them? Cut aid to
> > the schools? To colleges and universities?
> > I use my library a great deal and have always voted in favor of library tax
> > issues but, frankly, aid to the state's 251 public libraries would rank
> > below any of those things mentioned above.
> > On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:52 AM, neohiopal-request at listserve.com wrote:
> >
> >                              URGENT
> >
> >              ACT NOW to SAVE OUR LIBRARIES
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >    Governor Strickland proposes to fill Ohio's $3.2 billion shortfall in
> > the
> > state budget by eliminating $200+ million from the Public Library Fund
> > over
> > the next two years.  His proposal will have a drastic impact on all 251
> > public
> > libraries in Ohio and on Columbus Metropolitan Library in particular.
> >
> >
> >
> >   This proposal by the Governor cuts library funding by 50% beginning July
> > 1,
> > 2009.
> >
> >
> >
> >   We only have days to have an impact.
> >
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