Los Angeles, CA: In an eight minute Video News Blog the Full Disclosure Network® presents a dynamic exchange of views about whether jail time should be considered punishment, featuring video clips from recent interviews with Los Angeles Sheriff's Sgt. Paul Jernigan, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Merrick Bobb the renowned police reformer, formerly with the Christopher Commission. The video is moderated by host Leslie Dutton and is available for viewing FREE on the Internet on demand, 24/7 as a public service of the Full Disclosure Network®. The video news blogs and full interviews are also featured on 43 cable systems and available on DVD.
Here are a few points made during this debate:
- Sheriffs SGT. PAUL JERNIGAN: "Jail is not supposed to be pleasant, it is supposed to rehabilitate the people that are going to change their lives once they decide, jail is not for me."
- SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO, (Maricopa County, AZ): Describes the 140 degree heat in the Korean War tents where he houses his inmates on the Arizona desert. He says,"It gets hot out but I don't care. Our men and women who are fighting in Irag (have the same conditions). He says the inmates complain about the meals that cost 30 cents a day, they tell him they hate the food, but he says he doesn't care. "I hope they never come back..NEVER COME BACK".
- MERRICK BOBB, (Renowned Police Reformer): Says, "with due respect to the Sheriff, it is not the jailers role to punish an individual.....they cannot be mean, thoughtless, they must provide basic human needs" He says the role of the jailer is "to provide food, shelter, mental care, access to lawyers and whatever the law subscribes".
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EDGAR LOS ANGELES
Posted: 08:59 am [PST] on April 20 2008
Jail time is a joke and used as an educational facility for criminals to perfect their ways.
cobey monden amarillo, Tx
Posted: 10:23 pm [PST] on April 08 2008
Jail is supposed to be a punishment! 50% of inmates end up back in jail with in 3 years, it obviously wasnt too bad and whatever they are doin is not good enough
Phillip Lambro Los Angeles
Posted: 02:35 pm [PST] on March 01 2008
Sherrif Joe has a point when the criminals' parents call to thank him; but if they think his camp is bad, then they should visit a Russian Gulag. Why commit a crime when it is so much easier and rewarding to ask for help or work for meals? We should be ashamed because of religion to not demand population control world wide. 58 years ago with our domestic population at less than 105 million Sheriff Joe wasn't in business and there were fewer prisons; now with over 400 million here in the US there arn't enough prisons. Do the math. Too many people is your answer. Mandatory birth control: 2 people may not have more than 2 children and preferably 1 for the next 100 years. Look at Tiger Woods, Orson Welles, Charlie Rose, and thousands of other contributing ONLY CHILDREN.
Anonymous Location unknown
Posted: 09:15 pm [PST] on February 05 2008
Caneing should be the order of the day, instead of jail time.
Edwin Farr Blakeslee, PA
Posted: 07:41 am [PST] on January 18 2008
I have to hand it to Joe Arpiao. He is providing the deterance to make sure people avoid commiting crimes for fear of jail. Jails should not have Air Conditioning, feather pillows, cable television, or internet access. It is supposed to be punishment and more than that they are there to "repay a debt to the public that they committed a crime against". They should also be working for a tiny wage providing public services on work parties such as road retaining walls, garbage clean up, etc... The only inmates that should get ameneties are well behaved ones who do not cause trouble.
Andrew Salt Lake City, UT
Posted: 09:18 am [PST] on January 05 2008
Jail should be hard and unpleasant. They shouldn't get good food, they shouldn't get education beyond secondary school, and they shouldn't get free medical care beyond what is required to keep them alive. In addition, they should work more so that I don't have to pay as much for them. I didn't do anything wrong, so why should I have to pay for them?
Robert Walker Las Vegas, Nevada
Posted: 04:22 am [PST] on January 02 2008
Not only should jail time be hard time, the state should not be making money from the jailed.
Here in Nevada the jails have stores where the inmates can make purchases.
One man had a family member bring him a television, but he couldn't keep the tv. He could only have a tv purchased in the jail store - at a higher price than the one purchased in the department store.
And why does he have a tv in the first place?
Anonymous Location unknown
Posted: 07:41 pm [PST] on October 23 2007
It is because of Socialist Liberal reformers, like Mr. Bobb, who think we live in a democracy, when it is a Republic, that cause crime to increase. You should have ask Mr. Bobb, why is it that Sheriff Joe doesn't have fights in his jail but the "timeout" jails have them all the time?
russell Kline Flint Mi, 48532
Posted: 08:09 am [PST] on October 16 2007
i believe hard time is just hard time. don't do something stupid to be even put in that situation.
Olga M. LAZIN Los Angeles
Posted: 08:13 pm [PST] on September 20 2007
police are using excessive power and excessive violence on women especially anyway. Especially when they are uneducated and high on testosterone; most of the time. They chose to arrest white, polite women, preferably alone in the cars, a trend many of us have noticed.