On Jail food poisoning may not be solved

Posted on August 16 at 10:31 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

BostonBill said: "Honestly, I only feel badly for the one staff member." Tell me, Bill, are we to be more impressed with your toughness or your hatred?

On Staskal will not be placed at group home

Posted on May 16 at 5:28 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

There are two separate issues being discussed here and one does not preclude the other -- mental illness and bullying. It’s foolhardy for us to not consider the possibility that bullying is one of many factors that trigger a series of events caused by mental illness. Is it correct to blame bullying as the sole cause of mental illness and murder? No, of course not. Is it correct to discount the consequences of bullying? No, of course not.

On Two police officers injured in scuffle with Janesville man

Posted on March 3 at 10:19 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

pigbrain: Coming in contact with someone being tasered has no effect on you, unless you are exposed to the electrodes.

In this case, had the backup officer had to make a choice between using a taser or gun, it seems a taser would make much more sense. If the first officer were accidentally tasered, he'd recover in minutes. But if accidentally shot, who knows the consequences.

Police officers deserve our respect and support in having to make split second decisions in these life and death situations.

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 19 at 3:29 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

booner, if you truly are starved for facts, may I suggest you start with these:

A PBS review which contains many supporting document links ("The high rate of recidivism is due in large part to a lack of rehabilitation inside prison and few established resources for parolees."):

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hards...

ADPSR (a socially responsible group of architects who refuse to design prisons) on the lack of rehabilitation:

http://www.adpsr.org/prisons/rehabilitat...

And another webpage with many links to other organizations with information related to this subject:

http://www.adpsr.org/prisons/links.htm

Happy reading, my friend.

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 19 at 2:09 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

booner, another classic high school debating technique you've learned. You left out an important word just prior to the phrase you quoted -- the word "often." If you're going to quote people, at least quote them in context to what they said.

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 19 at 11:08 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

booner: Your continued attempt to belittle people who take an opposite position, and to call them liars, does your argument little good. Please show me and the other readers where I ever said there is "no rehabilitation whatsoever".

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 19 at 9:50 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

booner: My friend, I suppose all of those TV shows about prison life were filmed in some Hollywood studio.

One of my lifelong friends is captain of the guards at a large Wisconsin prison and I have toured your prisons. Your attempt to belittle me and my argument by assuming I haven't toured prisons or done any research does nothing to support your argument.

Cheers!

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 19 at 8:48 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

booner: We all know there is a large amount of "treatment" in prison. These "treatment" programs include lots of inmate-on-inmate violence, prisoner rape, being paid $2 per hour for work that civilians get $20-$30 per hour for, being confined in a cell for 23 hours per day, etc. Wake up!

Caging a person in over-crowded prison cells in under-staffed prisons because of reactionary and racist laws that make felons out of petty criminals is some "treatment" indeed! Does the disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine mean anything to you? How about expanding your myopic view of the world -- it is a much larger place than Rock County or Wisconsin.

Maintain that short-sighted perspective of yours and society will continue to pay the price.

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 18 at 11:24 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

nyconserv1 said: "what is the matter, the demoncrats need more voters?"

Come November 4th I think you'll find, much to your dismay, the Democrats have plenty of voters. Stop back on November 4th and we'll peruse the vote totals.

On Bill would restore voting rights to some Wisconsin felons

Posted on February 18 at 9:17 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

"But republican state representative Scott Suder says too many parolees commit new crimes. He says that shows they're not ready to vote."

I wonder if Suder and people like him have stopped to consider that one potential reason for felons committing new crimes is because our current justice system so dis-enfranchises them from being productive members of society. These are people who have served their prison time -- often with no rehabilitation whatsoever -- and are then released to society with the same or worse environment than prior to entering prison.

This will continue to be a problem until people wake up and realize you can't cage a person for years and years with little, if any, socialization or rehabilitation, release them to society without the rights of others, and then expect them to somehow become productive citizens.