Arkansas Set To Execute 8 Inmates over 10 Day Period in April

NPR was reporting that the ban the box movement has resulted in making it much hard for male black and Hispanic workers without criminal records to get hired. Before anyone who checked "have you ever been convicted of a felony" pretty much wouldn't get a job but now that employers can no longer ask that question they simply started avoiding "high risk" groups. Which technically is a violation of the law but it is almost impossible to prove intent unless someone is dumb enough to write it down or multiple witnesses come forward.

Wrong.

In the small towns where they're generally built, prisons are looked upon as a great source of jobs and are typically an economic boon to those communities. Many times they're the largest employer in the rural counties where they're built and local elected officials will go to great lengths to encourage the state to select their county as the location for a new prison.


You continue to prove that you have no idea of how the world actually works.

My particular hometown has two prisons next to one another. They used to be one giant prison, but they split between regular criminals and a medical facility that my aunt and uncle worked at.

Unrelated to that, but none of my high school friends with a lick of ambition live in that city anymore.

Added onto that, you said you had some belief before studying the scriptures, if you weren't a deist, then what were you?

A person with a lot of questions.

And you figure they've all been answered to your satisfaction now?

No. I still have some questions. Both doctrinal and historical. I probably always will.

Does it strike you at all that if you'd been born in say, Iraq, you'd probably be Muslim?

Naturally that occurs to me. It is foolish to suggest that your environment and background don't influence belief systems.

But,

The fact is that even people who have grown up as Muslims (or anything else) have converted to Christianity (and the other way as well).

But what are the odds you think that you'd win that lottery?

True, but conversion would affect every aspect of your life, particularly, in the case of going against the majority religion in certain countries, the possibility of losing your life. Do you actually believe that you specifically would be capable of being knocked off that particular horse?

yes I do! When you see people getting arrested (not talked to, not fined, but cuffed & stuffed) over the most trivial shit on a daily basis - then they have to spend big bucks on a lawyer KA-CHING! (or get railroaded) then they are in the probation system KA-CHING! when they get out and when the probation company messes up and they say have to pay more KA-CHING! or you get pulled over for a turn signal burned out and the cops see the parole issues and KA-CHING! you are stuffed & cuffed again - rinse & repeat.

And this is just white bread suburbia Mayberry shit - move on into major jail time crimes and you are talking exponentially increasing levels of money. Just sayin'

Guess we'll never know.

No.. that'd be the PTSD from the pre practice hernia checks.

fuckin' right...
guy was a seditionist.