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1. Wahlin Scott B

   
   5/15/2012 8:05 PM

   Louisiana has 3x as many prisoners per capita as Iran? You can get full healthcare in New Zealand for $300 per year. Maybe for-profit human services is not the way to go.
   
   http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html

   
   
   
   
2. Dennis Cook

   

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   5/16/2012 6:05 AM

   This article has a huge bias. It says prison populations are high, but then says New Orleans leads the nation in homicides. Well duh, it would be high then. It then says a murderer receives life with as little as 10 to 12 jurors. So what. Whats wrong with 10 to 12 jurors? It states that a judge should have that authority. Well thats only one person and they are complaining about 10 to 12 jurors, give me a break. And i love how they make it sound so bad that its private prisons (you know, ones not run by the state). The thing they dont tell you, is how much money they are actually saving by the state not running the prisons themselves. They can afford to be harsher on criminals because they are not funding lavish state prisons. Whats wrong two time car burglar doing some significant time? Nothing. They act like getting convicted of drug trafficking three times is no big deal. And then of course they say Gov. Jindal, a conservative republican with presidential ambitions, just shows they are trying to make him look bad and make people think us conservatives have no heart. When do publications ever say, President Obama, a far left liberal democrat? They don't. This story has no legs and should be contrived as the lefts way of trying to gain control of another sector of the economy.

   
   
   
   
3. Wahlin Scott B

   
   5/16/2012 8:05 AM

   It is 10 of 12 jurors, not 10 to 12. This means you could get life in prison with two jurors voting not guilty. The comment about the judge regards his inability to provide a lighter sentence because of mandatory sentencing. "Lavish prisons"? Really?

   
   
   
   
4. McCallum David K

   
   5/16/2012 1:05 PM

   We are high on crime and high on prisoners, no question about it. Do not seeing either changing in my lifetime. Baton Rouge has gotten progressively worse since Katrina and the murder rate ranks right with NOLA. You can throw all the money you want at it, hire and put more cops on the street but until (just like with education) the change begins at home, it will never change. Really need two parents at home, espeically a male figure to raise males and the parents old enough to teach basic morals and right from wrong to their children.
   
   Just last Friday a trial came to an end that had gone on for over a week. A murder for hire. "Lil Boosie" a local black rap artists, currently serving 8 years for attempting to smuggle drugs into Angola to some of his "posse" was on trial for murder. The prosecution could not prove that "Lil Boosie" had hired a hit man to eliminate someone threatening to testify against him. SIX potential witnesses had been killed in the past 3-4 years by this hit man............he changed his story once on the stand saying Boosie had not hired him..........had no idea who killed those 6 witnesses..........he happens to have a tatoo on his chest that has a quote over a tatoo of a
   AK47.......it sayssssssss "who be next Lil Boosie"..............found not guilty by jury of 9 black women, 1 white woman and 2 while males. That night in BR (thank goodness he was not found guilty) only 4 were shot. Night before last on 5 shootings including 1 home invasion..........and you wonder why some of us carry a pistol in our truck. Some zip codes you avoid at all cost, day or night.

   
   
   
   
5. Dennis Cook

   

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   5/16/2012 3:05 PM

   Scott Wahlin, CGCS said: It is 10 of 12 jurors, not 10 to 12. This means you could get life in prison with two jurors voting not guilty. The comment about the judge regards his inability to provide a lighter sentence because of mandatory sentencing. "Lavish prisons"? Really?

   
   
   Yeah, really! We have some very architecturally satisfying prisons in this country, state prisons. They look like they could be a corporation headquarters, other than the barbed wire. They have sport courts, nice workout facilities, cable television, etc. Mandatory sentencing for murderers is OK by me. Repeat offenders, OK too. If they didn't learn the first time with a lighter sentence, then what the heck is lightening the sentence gonna do? My point is, this article is biased as hell, blaming the private sector and making it out like prisoners are getting the shaft. How can you preach for a lighter sentence for a murderer? Then state gov. jindal, a conservative republican.......What the hell difference does that make?