When Prison Is A Better Option
From the Blog of Scott H Greenfield, comes an interesting but horrifyingly disturbing real-life story of a person required to register as a sexual offender who was released on probation, only to request to be voluntarily violated so that he can go back to prison. Why, you ask? Because probation sent him to go live in the woods!
Even though he could have had a home with his mother or his sister, both addresses were off limits because of residency restrictions, so he had to sleep in the woods on the ground, like an animal. The conditions were so bad and aggravating to his medical conditions, that he decided he was better off in prison… so he voluntarily violated and went back.
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All this total control over the released individual on MSR (mandated supervised release) is something imposed by the executive branch of government and can be challenged in the judicial branch. The problem is…the judges are all Roger B. Taney wannabees. That’s the bloke who in 1857 told that poor old Dred Scott he had no rights that anyone was bound to respect. You, as an RSO on weaponized probation because of your refusal to accept AND PAY FOR THRU THE NOSE their notion of “Treatment” and frequent polygraph examinations are no better that old Dred Scott. You’re a government slave confined in most cases to a fairly large “plantation” from which you are not permitted to stray without written permission by your “owner” which can be identified as your parole or supervisory officer. But try to find a Federal district court anywhere that will recognize your situation as a violation of the 13th Amendment. The authorities should take a page from the ancient Greeks. Following punishment, one’s crimes were expunged and the punished miscreant returns to the same situation he had before he committed his offense. All his citizens rights and liberties returned automatically. That’s how it should be for ANYBODY in this “Land of the Free” with “Liberty and justice for all who can afford it”.
When I was incarcerated, there was a very good, very intense, in-patient treatment program those convicted of a sex offense could volunteer for. Naturally I did and it really helped. Upon release, the state laws (Illinois) are very draconian and the law enforcement people seem to go out of their way to make things even harder on RSO’s. The stories on that issue I could share would fill many a page. Anyway, on this thread’s topic about prison being better than life on the outside, I am sad to report many of the folks who attended that treatment program with me went back inside; because the restrictions placed on them by the SO laws couple with the treatment they received from society and the police made life on the outside simple unbearable if not virtually impossible. They intentionally did something to violate the conditions of parole (in some cases lifetime parole) or if they were not on parole, they violated the SO registration laws in some way or another. Knowing this make me weep for the state of our country.
Some ask how did I avoid this fate? I got the hell out of Illinois as soon as I had the chance.