Vicious cycle

unfortunatly,this problem will always exist as no jobs are avalible for mothers & fathers when they are relaesed.If jobs are given it is usually jobs that pay minimum wage with no benifits.Well,these parents will still need food stamps housing childcare to be subsidised by taxpayers that think "x cons" shouldn't recieve education while locked up or benifits when they are released.What the solution?

guessing from all the murders, rapes and robberies that make headlines so
frequently causes me to think that locking everybody and their dog in
prison hasn't exactly make the state a safe place to live.

NWK,

Pleae try again to make a point.

Most here, right or wrong, think that if you committ a crime and are caught, some punishment should follow.

I fail to see how your post (here) addresses that logic.

Nowyoudontknownothin...crack is wack!! anonymousguy...the state doesn't make the stuff up and, people get tired of being victimized. Also, very few people are in prison for taking drugs. They go for making them and selling them. You really should have some idea about what you're talking about.

There are many injustices in the world and the choice of criminals to bring children into the world is one of them. They are self indulgent, "me first" and arrogant as to the damage they do and as always, society has to try to pick up the pieces, along with the pieces of other tragedies like disability, mental health, and so on. Since forty percent of the population don't make enough to pay taxes or simply don't work, the load is cast upon the remainder. One wonders when the capacity of productive society to support the unproductive people, undocumented or not, will be exhausted, especially when so much is wasted to bailout undeserving entities who use the funds for bonuses.

anonamousguy...so, we shouldn't be tough on crime?you might not know this, but at least 99% of the people in prison are there because they committed a crime. you may disagree, but when people commit crimes, many of them over and over again, they should be punished for it.

Now lets see, cops can sell drugs and get a slap on the hand, the most addicts we have by far are white prescription abusers of herion considered the worst of drugs. Then we have Sutton, 4 seperate felonies that are only the ones he didn't get to slide on.

So we have a drug addict epedemic on the white side of town, creating such havoc and what is our response? Nurse em, they're different. The creeps that scream law know darn well it has never been applied fairly and they are happy with it.

But you must answer for what you promote, which is claiming a drug addict from one race should have her children ripped away from her when you know darn well the vast majority committing the same crime is your race, so you must condone it, obviously the system does. White babies would be thrown around like footballs by the thousands and wouldn't turn out any better without thier mothers if all things were equal.

So either crack down on the white dope traders/users and round up the tens of thousands and treat them like your so inclined to treat minorities, and that would be fair. But we know you really don't want that, you like things just like they are.

End the war on drugs, which has turned out to be a war on children!

I have worked with children that parents are in prison and it is disheartening to see how a parents incarceration affects young children.

If those poor family had $10,000 for an attorney like the wealthy drug users in south tulsa and the suburbs, they parents probably would not be in prison.
This War of Drugs is also a war against the poor who cannot afford the outreageous cost of a decent attorney.

NORML show Oklahoma has the harshest drug laws in the nations. My guess is that is due to the money made for small towns that have few jobs that wanted prisons for their prime employer. Prisons are private mostly in this state and investors and servers for them make Kazillions of dollars, and no one cares about the citizens or especailly the children.

Merci is purchased in the Bible Belt and the lawers love it! The DA loves it or why else would we continue to be #1 in locking people away. Prisons do not work, we have had centuries to prove locking people up like dogs does not work, but we keep doing it because it brings profit to private prisons. PROFIT is all that matters in the bible belt! Justice is secondary! Corruption in the police force does not help either.

End this WAR on CHILDREN. When you built more and more jails and prison you have to supply the product which is a prisoner. That explains out harsh laws.
Profit for someone! Greed and truly lack of concern for HUMANITY!

Legalize marijuana like Alcohol. Put a legal tax on it not a phoney one like the Tax Stamp. Provide certains drugs to people that are going through extreme withdrawal and provide true mandated drug treatment over prison. USE the GPS for monitoring and stop locking the Mentally Ill up in Prisons. We have put the mentally ill on the streets and the ones the DA does not like he insures will end up in prison since the Mental Health courts are political and not funded.

This is a complex problem and greedy representatives who love to spout propoganda and fear which makes money for their campaing financers the prison servers, and private prison stock holders are a major reason for the suffering of these children. Some people truly have committed terrible crimes and may belong incarcerated, but most of those in Oklahoma that end up in Jail are POOR, and Black.

All it takes is money, money for education, money for the criminal justice system, money for food,shelter, warmth (and entertainment). All it takes is more money and our problems will be solved. I'm tempted to vote yes on 744 just to see what happens if it were to pass. The impact on the rest of state gov't would be most interesting, they could all lobby for the same thing and we could pay all state employees the average of what other surrounding states pay.