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    53 KB California man gets eight years for stealing cheese Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:21 No.270829  
    A California man has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison for stealing a $3.99 (£2.60) bag of shredded cheese in a case critics say shows the need for reform of the state's criminal justice system and the overcrowded state of its prisons.

    Robert Ferguson, who prosecutors say has a nearly 30-year record of convictions for burglary and other offences, avoided a life sentence under the state's controversial "three strikes" law after a psychological evaluation deemed him bipolar and unable to control his impulses to steal, the Sacramento Bee reported.

    Prosecutor Clinton Parish said Ferguson had spent 22 of the past 27 years behind bars but had failed to show he could obey the law. A judge sentenced him to seven years and eight months in prison, but he could be eligible for parole in three years.

    The ruling came amid critical overcrowding in the California prison system, to which years of tough policies, the "war on drugs" and one of the highest US recidivism rates have contributed. The system held 166,569 inmates in August, but remains so overcrowded nearly 8,000 have been sent to prisons outside the state.

    Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/03/california-eight-years-stealing-cheese
    >> Discourse !cHLSjTROWM 03/03/10(Wed)19:26 No.270861
    That's what happens when Prisons become a private industry.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:26 No.270864
    >>270861
    No it doesn't this is what happens when liberals enforce the nanny state.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:27 No.270869
    >>270861
    >>270864
    These two posts are a snapshot of this forum
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:27 No.270870
    >>270861
    >ignores war on drugs HERP DERP?
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:28 No.270880
    >>270864

    youre so scerrd of the bad guys just throw them in jail and lose the keys rite?
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:28 No.270881
    >>270864
    >>liberals... nanny state

    uh yeah that would be CONSERVATIVES dumbass. Liberals DONT LIKE locking up people.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:29 No.270889
    THREE STRIKES RULE!

    HEY GUYS IT WORKS FOR BASEBALL I BET IT CAN WORK FOR CRIMINALS!
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:30 No.270894
    Sounds like the only place that guy belongs is the jail.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:31 No.270898
    >>270881
    3/10
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:31 No.270902
    Well um...

    What would you propose /new/?

    I am curious since I shop lift a lot and am hungry right now.

    In my state this isn't even really a crime. I don't think you even go to jail for less then $300.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:33 No.270910
    >>270881
    correction: Liberals only lock up actual threats.

    Petty theft isn't worth the tens of thousands per year to house someone. Most bipolar individuals can control their worst impulses with mood stabilizers and therapy and be fairly productive in a controlled work environment outside prison.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:36 No.270942
    What would /new/ suggest? Cut off his hands?

    Why don't you just let the arabs take over then?
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:39 No.270968
    >>270902
    >>270942
    /thread
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:45 No.271015
    Republicans enjoy the idea of locking people up because they're smoking pot and you know what? It works. I don't know of a single place that I could go buy some weed or any other drugs in about 20 minutes.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:46 No.271023
    >>270864
    Hey fucktard, the nanny state would give him cheese
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:47 No.271027
    >>270889

    I lol'd.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:47 No.271028
    >>271015

    I also happen to be selling drugs. Does that make me a terrorist?
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:49 No.271035
    Petty theft with a prior in petty theft is a felony in California.

    Suck it up, fags.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:50 No.271042
    >>271015
    >it works
    i lold.
    http://www.drugabuse.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html

    Your drug laws are anti-human and pro big goverment.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:50 No.271045
    ITT republicans think high penalties deter crime when actual sociologists and criminologists have demonstrated otherwise.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:56 No.271080
    >>270861
    >CALIFORNIA

    >RUN BY LIBERALS SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME

    >JAIL MAN FOR STEALING CHEESE

    >LOL
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:58 No.271093
    >>271015
    I gave a gargantuan guttural yell of laughter from this post. Know your shit man, the war on drugs hasn't benefited the general public as a whole. Prohibition has never worked, even in the bible with adam and eve. god said don't fucking touch this and well... they did.

    I knew 5 places to get weed within 20 min running distance from my house... when I was in 7th grade.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)19:58 No.271094
    >>271045
    >CALIFORNIA

    >RUN BY LIBERALS

    >LIBERAL LAWS SENT THIS GUY TO JAIL

    >LIBERALS BLAME CONSERVATIVES FOR THEIR OWN BULLSHIT THEY CREATED

    >lol
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)20:00 No.271105
    >>271015
    pretty sure this is a troll
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)20:01 No.271117
    >>271093
    Not only does it not work it makes things worse.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)20:04 No.271133
    >>271117
    exactly, think if it were legal. You would have to show ID in order to get it so children and teenagers wouldn't be able to get it as easy. Yet, so many people believe that if it were legal it would be MUCH easier for children to get it... which makes no fucking sense.

    HURR DURR THINK OF THE CHILDREN HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)20:09 No.271169
    >>271094

    Isn't the governor Republican? Oh oops.
    >> Anonymous 03/03/10(Wed)20:11 No.271181
    >>271015
    in many places in this country you can walk around the block and people will just sit there going "weed, weed, weed". How much easier can it actually be to find.

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