So called non-violent offenders are not nice people. Many of them have previously committed violent crimes or have had their crimes plea bargained down to a non-violent crime from a violent one. These offenders are often incapable of functioning in society.
The State of Vermont has a mass exodus of non-violent offenders from Vermont prisons planned for July 1, 2010 to help the state save $10 million. "Obviously we'll be very careful in any (furlough) decision we make," Administration Secretary Neale Lunderville said Thursday."
The "very careful" thing to do would be to not release these offenders and to find a better way to save the money. I know I don't want these people in my neighborhood. No one does.
With the state of the economy and current events, crime is on the rise. Where will it stop? How many criminals can our communities "absorb"?
Vermont's plan to release criminals into it's communities is extremely ill - conceived and should not go forward. These people must be held accountable for their crimes and they belong in prison.
One way to save the state money would be to eliminate entitlement programs, entitlement programs of all kinds which government really has no business granting with our hard earned tax money. Another way
would be to eliminate the Vermont State Employees Union and the gratuitous, uncalled for benefits that underproductive state employees currently receive. We need to shrink government on both the state and
federal level. We would probably be able to save enough money to build more prisons in Vermont, which would be a much more legitimate, more constitutional function of state government.
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