Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Sheriff Babeu is "gaming the system"


Babeu is "gaming the system" just like the private prisons in the county are, all depending on SB 1070 as a revenue source.
This study released this month:
http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/gaming_the_system.pdf
ACLU is right about the county jail.  And private prisons aren't the answer for any of our problems, now or in the future.

Check out this report:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/06/24/inmate-conditions-at-immigration-centers-in-question/
Watch the video.....
Any real data to prove conditions are worse for illegals vs legals?
Why if the conditions are so bad, why do they fight deportation?

Perhaps our county supervisors, seeing as how this is related to the Pinal County Jail, would be kind enough to stand up and do something about this travesty:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2011-06-23/news/immigrants-who-fight-deportation-are-packed-into-federal-gulags-for-months-and-years-before-their-cases-are-heard/
http://acluaz.org/issues/immigrant-rights/2011-06/943



Chuck Farley is right. Pinal Resident's comment leaves the impression that Babeu isn't a career politician, & hasn't been in politics long. And I still run into people who imagine he's a career law-enforcement or military officer who only entered politics in 2008. He himself encourages that misimpression. The truth is he's been a career politician for a quarter-century -- just not here. In his home state, he ran for office in 1987 (as an acolyte of Pat Robertson), 1989, 1992, 1996, 1997, & 2001. It's been his only real vocation. But he lost four of the six races (culminating in three successive, increasingly bitter shut-outs), & after the last one, he began looking for someplace else to run, where voters wouldn't know him or his checkered personal & political history.
Given the lingering persistence of false impressions about the man (assiduously cultivated by him & his PR staff), this bears repeating.
Last edited on Sun Oct 2nd, 2011 01:39 am by ded from Edham

If I were going to be a lawyer, I'd try to be like Mark...

The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse

Mark Bennett

Try this:

Stand up. Raise one foot off the ground. Now shift your weight forward. Don’t set your raised foot down. What happens?

You fall down.

But if you do the same thing and set the raised foot down to stop your fall, you take a step. Raise the other foot off the ground, shift your weight forward, and set your raised foot down to catch you. String a series of these events together, and you’re moving across the ground.

Walking....

(The rest is here: The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse)