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This stat is for state prison inmates so it's not a bunch of county govts doing this, it's a single bureaucracy. State prison programs are usually budgeted by inmate per cell per night so they do have an interest in keeping them filled. I suspect covid and inflation have weakened the agencies responsible for fair parole hearing and the people in charge don't care because keeping prisons full is "good for business".
The prison for profit complex should be a scandal. >

Seriously. It’s so fucking disgusting, like, we all know about it, it’s not a secret, yet nothing, absolutely fuck all, gets done about it. 
I like money as much as the next guy and I’ve done some borderline shady shit to make money but I just cannot imagine making money from knowingly depriving my fellow countrymen of their liberty, oftentimes on trumped up bogus charges or innocent people altogether. The idea of denying an innocent or undeserving person of their freedom is just abhorrent to me; no amount of money could ever make me feel good about it. The people who run the prison industrial complex, lobby for increased harsh sentencing guidelines, lawmakers who pass these laws and take kickbacks, cops who target people and manufacturer evidence and charges to meet quotas, the judges who have corrupt arrangements to convict more and more people to these prisons, and the bloodsuckers who invest in these modern day plantations are all culpable in one of the most atrocious human rights abuses in our nations history. They are fucking evil, vile, morally repugnant, reprehensible people, who should be fucking ashamed of their existence. 
Everyone that knowingly plays a role in this process should be locked up for good in the same prisons and conditions that they profit from. >


I like money as much as the next guy and I’ve done some borderline shady shit to make money but I just cannot imagine making money from knowingly depriving my fellow countrymen

Your first mistake, you view people as fellow human. Once you dehumanize Inmates it becomes easier. It's why ideology like the Thin Blue Line, and the warrior cop is so dangerous. As  Edward James Olmos said "There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people"
The people who profit from the suffering of others believe they're only ones morally superior enough to determine who's a valuable member of society and who should be enemies of the state. >

"You call somethin' a war, pretty soon you're gonna have everybody runnin' around actin' like warriors. They'll be on a damn crusade, stormin' corners, slappin' on cuffs, racking up body counts. And in a war, you need a fuckin' enemy; and pretty soon damn near everybody on every corner's your fuckin' enemy, and the neighborhood you supposed to be policin', that's just occupied territory." 

Colvin, from The Wire. >

"And before we went and took the wrong turn and started with these war games, the cop walked a beat and he learned that post. And if there were things that happened up on that post whether there be a rape, a robbery, a shooting; he had people out there helping him, feeding him information." >

where else is AL gonna get all that free labor >


They are supposed to ask if someone has been adequately punished. She’s 71 and has served 19 years, without violations in 12 years,” Cobb said. “Then the next question is: Do they pose a risk to public safety? The woman is in a wheelchair and cannot even go to the bathroom by herself. She’s dying and they just denied her parole. It is an injustice. It is shameful.  

Ignorance is part of the problem. >

Clearly, the people of AL LOVE this, and probably want more of it, along with all the other awful things that happen there and are easily avoidable. Presumably, because they feel the targets are "others" and not "good people", ya know, like Jesus would've said and done. I'll never live or vacation there. Beyond that, no idea how this gets fixed or changed with a salivating populace. >

Alabama and Oklahoma are not talked about enough. We always hear about Florida and Texas.
Edit typo >

I'm from Houston and I've never ran into more nutty people than those in Oklahoma and I've lived in NYC as well. >

Im in Houston, too, and while the small Texas towns are whacky, I found Alabama straight crazy on top of absolutely mental. The number of people that think that Bill Gates is microchipping them to eat their babies' adrenochrome and listening to them through the walls in their moldy 2 bedroom where the floor IS the ashtray is wild. >

In the plants I bet 25% of people believe something like this. I honestly wasn't even thinking of this, many people in my family think that COVID is fake and 5g is what is making people sick. I was more thinking of random people in Oklahoma coming up to me and telling me crazy stuff. >

I did see a shirtless guy rolling in trash at an intersection today by Baybrook Mall.
He had a dog and a target cart full of plastic bags and banged his head on the cart. >

Probably mental health or drugs. I haven't been to that mall in forever and I'm surprised it still exists. Seems like all the ones in the area never had anyone in them before the pandemic. >

Baybrook Mall had a huge overhall prepandemic. It was bought by the same group that did the Woodlands Mall/Riverwalk/Marketplace.
It gets very busy. It's really nice. 
But yeah, that dude was high on something. Still knew how to use a crosswalk. >

Don't they mean 'a new high'? Or do they usually deny more than 90% parole? >

If you read the article,  it refers to %10 release rate being the new low after several years of decline.  The article title sucks. >

After reading the article i think the reason behind it is just sad.
The inmate kept insisting that someone else committed the murder, that generally is a big  "No no" and an admission of guilt for a crime a person has been sentenced to is Step One. That is generally one of the basic requirements to be granted parole anywhere (Not even US specific) that there is admission of guilt --> Regret --> Work towards becoming a better person.
A terrible trap if she is innocent, but in the eyes of the law she isnt and thats what the parole board has to go with. >

Not really. It's about being a danger to the rest of us. She is about to die and is incontinent. She would live the rest of her life at a nursing facility that would be able to take better care of her. >

Another thing is that so many people are obsessed with vengeance. Trying to talk about this is nearly impossible when you get down to individual cases because the loud voices will say things like 'well, the victim doesn't get parole!' 'what if it was YOUR sister/daughter' It stops being about who is and isn't a danger to society at all. >

Coming from a family who had a child (cousin, 18 months) murdered, it’s very hard not to go there. The circumstances are very different (murderer got out after 20 years, he’s in his 40’s and in good health etc), but the emotional reaction is still there and I do think that fucker should have never walked free and I really do not mind being considered a loud voice about the subject. 
I get that I’m extremely biased, but the trauma a victims loved ones go through shouldn’t be disregarded. I can get behind compassionate medical care for an inmate who isn’t a threat, but I’m not sure that person should be released anywhere but to a skilled nursing facility. >

Yeah. It's complicated for sure. On reddit specifically though it's like...Any thread about prisons in general are like, sentences are too long, mandatory minimums are terrible, we have to look at why these things happen, for profit prisons are awful. But then anything about an individual person is 'lock him/her up forever'. I don't know what the answer is, how much weight to give to what. But I can't help but look at the evidence I see that shows that treating people better in prison leads to much better results than the opposite - but then people yell about giving prisoners TVs in Scandinavia even if they have much higher rehabilitation rates.
I think another thing is the question of blame...Probably most/many criminals aren't 'just evil' but got that way due to circumstances. But there are some crimes where like...Maybe if you do them, you can be rehabilitated or regretful etc, but you need to stay in prison. I feel this way about the Charles Manson cultists - I think they were brainwashed teenagers and more of us than we'd like to admit might've got caught up in that. But I also am like... ok maybe you can be a productive citizen from prison. I definitely don't have the answers. >

Do they mean a new high, or is this supposed to be positive news? >

According to google they do not currently have private prisons. >

Those are in the process of being built. I doubt that prisons that don’t exist yet are having much influence on a policy that has been in place for years. >

Just admit that you are wrong. Nobody will think any less of you for doing so. >

I'm firmly in the camp that Alabama, along with Missouri and Louisiana are police states. They needed slavery to stay relevent 200 years ago, and they still do >

New York, too. >

The prison population in New York is .46% of the state population, or 91k. Alabama has a prison population of .94%, or 47k. 
In other words, Alabama has twice the incarceration rate with a quarter the population of New York. It also has 1/12th the GDP of just New York City and about 57% the population of just that city.
Alabama at least has a higher GDP than 22 other states though at least. Vermont has the lowest, but it s still higher per capita than Alabama.
The worst state, imo, is probably Mississippi though. 19.58% It's population is in poverty. Compared to Alabama's 16% and New York's 13.6%. Then the lowest is New Hampshire at 7.42%. >

Not just incarceration, but the frequency with which the government can trample on rights such as the 4th amendment and their stop & frisk policies as well. >

It’s Alabama. If they didn’t keep them locked up what are the guards going to do for work? >

They don’t get paid to beat EACH OTHER, after all! >

I want to see the percent granted parole breakdown by race >

Me too! You think they would show those numbers >

If NASA was to move it’s facilities out of Huntsville it would have a noticeable negative effect on the IQ index of Alabama. >

To be fair, I can't think of many states where the average IQ would go up if all the NASA people left.  I mean, they don't call it "rocket science" for nothing... >

But would there be a noticeable change? >

Depends what you mean by noticeable... If you mean you can taste it in the water that the smart people left no. If you mean hey, how come we don't make rockets anymore, then yes. >

Gotta keep those private prison board members making money. >

Alabama does not currently have any private prisons. >

Personally, it’s Alabama. I don’t know why y’all expect them to function like a normal state 💀 >

Another Prison System! >

Vice did a better job covering this than the Associated Press. Short version of it is that the State of Alabama used to place more emphasis on one's assessed risk of recidivism per ORAS (the Ohio Risk Assessment System) when considering parole but stopped doing so after a recent parolee murdered three people back in 2018. >

For profit prisons don’t make money if people are rehabilitated or released because they are dying >

See also: for profit medical care >

Gotta keep those profits coming in, especially if the prisoner in question happens to not be white. >

AL has no private prisons. >

Oof. So possibly just pure racism then. >

I barely escaped Alabama 6 years ago.  I'll never go back for ANY reason. >

It's one of those things where people go bitching about lap tops and Pelosi and I'm just sitting over here saying, "Who cares?", because we got problems like these. They then start yelling and screaming about how it somehow matters. Our priorities are fucked up. >

Alabama is a shit show, what else is new ? >

Genuine question.
Isn’t having someone on parole notably cheaper (for the state/country) vs keeping them incarcerated?
If so, why deny parole to those that are seen to have made the necessary changes and improvements? >

Not necessarily. A lot of state prisons are privately owned - for profit. Most if not all private prison contracts contain a clause that the prison must have a certain percentage of occupancy. If that percentage is not met, then the state is charged a penalty. So, it's in the state's interest to keep the prison population above that threshold. >

and how many of those prisons are for profit gop  backers? >

Come and visit Alabama, where you can experience our statewide social experimental exhibit, Cofefe #22, where the Confederacy never ended!" 
    /sarcasm >

I mean, this is a region that celebrates a man and a faction that fought to keep the horrible institution of slavery.
having decency is not a forte in this area of the world. >

I am from Alabama but now live in Mississippi. This past week something was posted about a school local to me and the whole “you can’t be behind paying lunch and got see the play frozen” it made me super sad to hear all of the comments about how they should take the “free” food from inmates to give to the students.
I mean can’t we do both? Everyone deserves access to clean water, food and healthcare. I also believe in education but I am not gonna hold my breath. But, this is a hill I am prepared to die on.
Kids should have free lunch. This lady should be paroled. Inmates deserve food. What motivation do inmates have if only 10 percent are pardoned? >

"What motivation do inmates have if only 10 percent are pardoned?"
That's one of the best takes of seen tonight on this subject. >

Garbage state stays garbage >

Thank goodness Mississippi is 91%--what would Bama do without it's developmentally disabled cousin next door. >

Alabama is infested with corporate and small time grifting running rough shod over everyone in and out of prison >

Gotta keep their slaves. >

I always wonder, does Alabama know it’s the shittiest state? >

Alabama: gestures vigorously at Mississippi >

Alabama’s state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi” >

They're equally shitty.  I've lived in both.  At least Mississippi has gambling. >

Can’t make any money off the prison slaves if you let them out.