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Sweet Home Alabama…

Sweet Home Alabama… published on

… where you go to church or you go to jail.

Or to be more accurate, where you go to church instead of jail.

The Alabama city of Bay Minette has put in place a program which allows misdemeanor offenders to choose between jail and a fine, or a year of weekly church attendance. The ROC (get it? Bit of Christian humor there.) program will purportedly achieve two things. One is a reduction in the costs associated with running the hoosegow, the other is the supposed rehabilitation of the miscreants in question. While this is all a bit of a worry and can be seen as a way of coercing people into being brainwashed into voting for the religious loons on the Right, it does do away with jail sentences for minor crims, an unexpectedly civilized step for any  country, much less the one with the highest proportion of its citizens behind bars.

Personally, I don’t care about crestfallen preachers, but I suspect these guys will be disappointed in how transient the faith of their new congregates will be. One year of  spouting pious claptrap about the Angry Old Man in the Sky, then it’s back to stealing cars while smoking dope and bargaining with the local hookers!

And check out the preacher who claims that people who “fall in love” with Jesus are a help not an injury to society! Because as we’ve seen from the crusades, to the inquisition, to George W and to Anders Breivik, if there is one factor that will prevent an individual from fucking shit up, it’s having a thing for the J-Man.

Cheech and Chong do hard time here

California to Set Free Shitload of Female Prisoners

California to Set Free Shitload of Female Prisoners published on

California is about to relieve its overcrowded prison system by letting out some of their female inmates, namely those that have committed crimes that were “nonviolent, nonserious and not sexual” and who have children to look after.

Since minor, non-violent crims shouldn’t be in jail to begin with, and are thrown in with the scum only to fatten corporate wallets, this is good news. But what about the fathers and the childless folks who have committed such minor offenses? Why are only the women with children being given this break? The attached article claims that similar may be done for male inmates in the future, but in my view that “may” is worth about as much as a badly bent 75 cent coin. While hoping that this is the beginning of an initiative that will see large numbers of harmless fools let  back out into the sunlight, I am inclined to think that this will all fade away once the federal government stops hassling California about its overstuffed chicken pens and goes on to matters more important than freeing men who shouldn’t be in jail.

As for the equally clear discrimination against the childless, I will put that down to two factors. By letting parents out, they not only save money at the jail end of things, but also on welfare aid to whoever is looking after the children now, a secondary gain which obviously will not come about when  releasing the childless. The other thing that comes to mind is that this is yet another way to pressure people into having kids to feed to the machine. Plan to smoke pot or shoplift a pack of munchies? Why, just turn out a few puppies first and you’ll never go to jail again! Congratulations, you’ve just given birth to a nine pound “Get Out of Jail Free” card!

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