9 Responses to “Prison Inmate Indicted For Murdering Cellmate”

1. dawn holley on October 18th, 2012 3:59 pm

   I am under the assumption that the people writing possibly have children. It goes without saying that statistically speaking that 1 out of 100 parents deal with some type of problems involving crime and/or punishment. Can any of you parents sit here and soundly say that if your child was murdered in a prison, you would find that completely satisfactory? Your child was there for whatever reason; obviously crime, even could have been in the wrong place at time, this actually happens more than not. Let us just say this is this case, is death okay? Death is final. Your child is dead. Is this what you people here believe is good and true? Sounds like you are the monsters on the block.

2. Jules on September 10th, 2012 8:22 pm

   Florida has the Re-Entry program. If an inmate can be reahibilitated, DOC offers classes. Volunteers come in and teach these classes. (Meaning no cost to the tax-payers) This is a great program. But you don’t want to use this on inmates that have 10, 15 or 25 years to go. You want to use this on inmates, that are about to get out. They want to change to better themselves and their families. An animal is an animal but all inmates are not animals! This inmate definately has some issues or he wouldn’t have been at Santa Rosa in the first place. He couldn’t get along with other inmates at an open population camp so he was sent to Santa Rosa, a Close Management compound.

3. Missteacher on September 8th, 2012 2:02 pm

   For people considering a life of crime, this could be a deterrent. I would think being locked up with monsters surely would turn some heads to the clean and honest life. Maybe we should call prisons Monsterblocks.

4. David Huie Green on September 7th, 2012 11:44 pm

   REGARDING:
   “Wow David! Suspended Animation? Sounds cruel itself, and expensive. Technology to reform one,”

   Cruel?
   Nah, simply put them to sleep first and the freezing part should be over quickly. Liquid nitrogen isn’t all that expensive and as to the revival and reforming technology, that is for later generations to worry about — if they want to.
   They would have the option.

   David for passing the buck
   and protecting the innocent

5. NO Excuses on September 7th, 2012 1:24 pm

   @Henry,

   You have a point. LIfers are difficult to deal with. Why should they behave? They aren’t ever going to breathe free air again, so what’s the point. Maybe if they had to do 30 years of a life sentence with exceptionally good behavior, they could work their way out. AND, they would hove 30 years of practicing good behavior.

   Wait – we tried that – parole. It doesn’t work either.

   As David said, people only change if they want to. I do believe they can change, otherwise, what’s the point?

6. Kelly Clark on September 7th, 2012 1:14 pm

   Wow David! Suspended Animation? Sounds cruel itself, and expensive. Technology to reform one, seems like all the technology to this point has not made us a gentler society, just more devious. The man who has passed may have the same idea that mortality shouldnt be decided by another. I definately cant find a good solution for this situation but we all make our own choices and as cruel as incarceration is, it is our punishment in the here and now otherwise lets all mess up when life hands us a shady hand and get frozen till either the power goes out or science can save the world…….

7. David Huie Green on September 7th, 2012 12:26 pm

   REGARDING:
   “Does anyone but me wonder how many crimes are committed in prisons that go unpunished?”

   Nope.
   We can assume most aren’t caught or even reported.

   AND
   “I thought the idea was to rehabilitate them?”

   That used to be the idea under the Christian theology of repentance, even to the point of renaming prisons “penitentiaries,” places for penitence or repentance.

   Some were paroled early based on their sincere promises to “go and sin no more” since nobody wants to interfere with the freedom and lives of reformed sinners.

   The only problem was that when people looked at the success rate, it became obvious that people don’t change unless they want to change.

   Killers were still killers when released. Despite contrary promises those paroled had a tremendous rate of committing more crimes shortly after release. (And others just weren’t caught.) The parole boards tended to consider it a success if they could go sixty days without being charged with some other crime against the innocent people on the outside.

   This tended to lead us back to the previous philosophy that killers and criminals can’t hurt others if they are barred from doing so by physical bars. it works for those on the outside as long as they stay inside, but means those on the inside are surrounded by a number of criminals.

   Still, incarceration IS cruel and escape IS possible; therefore thought should be given to placing the most dangerous in suspended animation until such time as they can be revived and reformed by advances in technology. Cryogenic storage suggests itself, freezing them in liquid nitrogen in the mean time (or until the equipment malfunctions).

   David for protecting the innocent
   and giving the guilty a chance
   cold though it may be

8. Henry Coe on September 7th, 2012 9:52 am

   I don’t get why we sentence people to life + 15 years and then expect them to not act with animal instinct?

   I just seems to me it is a waste of tax payer dollars to keep someone alive who we know committed an act of violence and has been sentenced to life. Who knows, this guy may have committed this murder so he would get the death penalty.
   It’s another shame what it will cost the State to make that happen vs how inexpensively it could be done to include making him dig his own grave.

9. Just Saying on September 7th, 2012 9:07 am

   Does anyone but me wonder how many crimes are committed in prisons that go unpunished? I thought the idea was to rehabilitate them?