Shameless lobbying to all Floridians!

To err is human to forgive divine all the best urban

I'll have to look into this further tomorrow and, if I'm in support of it, I will let me views be heard since I am in Florida. I don't have the time to check it out tonight...I just got home...but I will look at it tomorrow and take action one way or another.

I hope that this bill passes. It makes sense especially if elderly convicts have been reformed in prison. I understand that all of us do mistakes, some of us gross mistakes. Some have money and manage to get away with it by paying good lawyers to defend us in courts while others who have no means end up in a cell. So yes your suggestion and support to the bill makes a lot of sense.

I would look very hard at this ides. Many of these folks will go from prison to become homeless and indigent. Then they would still be on the state rolls for any care they would receive. There are no happy answers for most of these people. If the qualifications are strong enough and they can only be released if they have resources with which to live then maybe it would help but I would guess that would not mean enough could be released to make it worth the expense to vet them. Blessings

Hmm. I don't know much about this thing as a whole, but I'm wondering if it will really save so much money. When these elderly prisoners are released, where will they go? What will they do? Young felons have a hard enough time finding work, and if they don't end up back in the can, you have to think they're still draining the system somehow if unemployed. Older felons being released may end up costing a lot more than keeping them in prison. I could be wrong, but here's my thinking on it: Prisons do take a lot of money to operate, but the way I understand it, everything is generic and inclusive, as in the food and care. They're not exactly serving prime rib, and if a 70-year-old criminal has cancer, I doubt he or she is receiving--or deserves to receive--top-of-the-line medical treatment. (Is it inhumane to treat prisoners differently than law-abiding citizens in terms of food, clothing and care? That's a whole other debate to be sure...) Let's say that many seniors are released from prison. They then need a place to live. Are more expensive halfway houses the answer? Taxpayer funded apartment complexes? And they have to eat. If they can't get a job or are too old to work, then they'll be on food stamps and other forms of assistance (I don't know if old ex cons can get SS?). And, obviously, they'll be on Medicare -- dilluted as it will be by then. With the better care, they're costing a lot more money. And if they've been in prison, they haven't been pitching in their fair tax share like most other seniors receiving it. I want to like this. I really do! If the eldery are deemed fit to be released into society and are considered rehibilitated, then I'm all for their release. But I can't see how it's going to save money. Well, unless they jump out of the frying pan and into the fire -- from prisons to a nursing home. Am I missing something important here?