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Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by ironmagma »

msgodel wrote: post #127
b0a04gl wrote: post #50

what if prison ends up becoming the most distraction-free dev environment. no meetings, no slack pings, no linkedin recruiters, just you, a terminal, and 10 years of uninterrupted focus. kinda terrifying how productive that sounds

If you're not dating anyway and don't own your house outright prison with computer access honestly doesn't sound bad at all. No need to worry about rent, no need to worry about healthcare, no need deal with all this social crap.

Not rent, just crippling debt: https://apnews.com/article/crime-prisons-lawsuits-connecticu...

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by rustcleaner »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #397
badc0ffee wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> trying to make a definitive case on his...goodness? morality? Speaking for myself, I'm actually just discussing the idea that a non-violent crime like drug dealing necessarily deserves a light sentence in general. > Sounds like a you thing It is a me thing. That's why I said "brings to mind". I'm a product of my time. I remember when weed and psychedelics meant demonization and heavy sentences, and it was absurd be…

They are largely the same though. Small-time dealing of any drug is often just being the guy in your circle of users that does the group buying, maybe it was just your turn. Or your dealer says you can pay for your purchase by driving this package across town. Now you've been caught with enough pills to kill 30 people and the intent to distribute - is that an action that hits your threshold for heavy sentences and ba…

No but this whole discussion hits my threshold on what the extent of government should be, and people need a lot more sovereignty from police/court harrassment than they get now. We live in a totalitarian police state and have for about a century now.

The state needs to get out of domestic warfare, war on drugs, war on poverty, war on crime, quit abusing its customers (aka "criminals"), and stick only to killing and oppressing foreign tribes! Put a 12 year cap on sentences, the state should have no right to take the life of its customer even if the taking is placing in a box. Also I would like to see UBI go to released felons first as well as the vote, as they have seen significant economic sequelae and injustice at the hands of the state!

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by rustcleaner »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #279
antihero wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amazing. Absolutely insane that people are incarcerated so long for non-violent drug crimes, though. Turso also looks really neat for small Payload sites.

Oh absolutely. Voters always favor harsher punishments or making things worse for those already convicted of crimes. You never get any more votes by pushing for lower punishments for any crime or by doing anything to reduce recidivism. I suspect that a pretty solid litmus test for "politician who is actually trying to make the world a better place" based just on how they vote for lowering recidivism.

Justification to abolish democracy, and because everything else is worse I guess we're going to have to go to a voluntarist ancap NAP-respecting society!

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by rustcleaner »

ahahs wrote: post #334
antihero wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amazing. Absolutely insane that people are incarcerated so long for non-violent drug crimes, though. Turso also looks really neat for small Payload sites.

Say that to the people he killed selling those drugs. This isn't weed, it's highly lethal pills.

He didn't kill anyone, unless he misrepresented the product and the customer used the product incorrectly and died as a result. Even then there's argument for tainted product and considering the persecution around the industry, I as a juror would acquit any charge reliant on that as the underlying logic. Even then, if I foresaw more than 12 years sentence for anyone I would acquit and jury nullify on human rights grounds. Humans must be free. The big moral failure of modern states is their lack of unmolested opt-out.

People like big strong dominating government until it gets replaced with the Mormon church, or a Caliphate, then nooo it's not statesmanship but just religion. (Hint: all states are religions, and codes are religious texts. What do freedom of religion and freedom of association mean in this context, instead of the toothless safe-for-government one you're used to thinking of it in?)

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by rustcleaner »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #117
mlissner wrote: post #87

Maine's remote work program is an incredibly promising development to prevent recidivism. The amazing thing about it is that it gives real jobs to prisoners that they can seamlessly continue after they get out of prison. Normally when you get out, it's impossible to get a job, and the clock is ticking. This leads to desperation, which leads to bad behavior. There is a real risk of exploitation, but if it's properly m…

This sounds good. It is important that we recognize all of the purposes of punishment instead of overemphasizing one or neglecting the other. Punishment has three ends: retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence. It is important that you pay for your crime for the sake of justice; it is charitable and prudent to rehabilitate the criminal, satisfying the corrective end of punishment; and would-be criminals must be gi…

>"It is important that you pay for your crime for the sake of justice"

Oh dang, there's that pesky religious mechanic again! Why can't we build on pragmatism rather than ensuring the Justice God has enough blood-years drained from criminal-victims? Two crimes don't make a justice!

Irrelevant addendum: I think I will mix atheism and anarchism as they are very compatible concepts, in that they stand in skepticism of essentially the same species of entity with two masks: church and state.

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by bdangubic »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #117
mlissner wrote: post #87

Maine's remote work program is an incredibly promising development to prevent recidivism. The amazing thing about it is that it gives real jobs to prisoners that they can seamlessly continue after they get out of prison. Normally when you get out, it's impossible to get a job, and the clock is ticking. This leads to desperation, which leads to bad behavior. There is a real risk of exploitation, but if it's properly m…

This sounds good. It is important that we recognize all of the purposes of punishment instead of overemphasizing one or neglecting the other. Punishment has three ends: retribution, rehabilitation, and deterrence. It is important that you pay for your crime for the sake of justice; it is charitable and prudent to rehabilitate the criminal, satisfying the corrective end of punishment; and would-be criminals must be gi…

It is important that you pay for your crime for the sake of justice

damn…

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by greglansky »

sneak wrote: post #452
greglansky wrote: post #443

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He broke his gf's arm as part of a prolonged campaign of domestic violence against her.

This was conveniently omitted from both TFA as well as the linked “how I got here” post. Where did you learn this?

Court docs: https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt471/files/docu...

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by greglansky »

keepamovin wrote: post #467
badc0ffee wrote: post #434

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He received a suspended sentence for the marijuana. But then he breached his probation, and there were later charges including one for carfentanil.

I recall what I read in his blog post was “majority of sentence was for marijuana”

Why would you take him at his word when he's a self-admitted bad actor and therefore likely to be an unreliable narrator?

Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by [deleted] »

trod1234 wrote: post #289
mlissner wrote: post #87

Maine's remote work program is an incredibly promising development to prevent recidivism. The amazing thing about it is that it gives real jobs to prisoners that they can seamlessly continue after they get out of prison. Normally when you get out, it's impossible to get a job, and the clock is ticking. This leads to desperation, which leads to bad behavior. There is a real risk of exploitation, but if it's properly m…

One of the biggest problems with the prison system in the US is that prisoners are often saddled with the debt related to or imposed on them by their incarceration which they can't pay back. The inability to find a job coupled with the crushing interest is what leads to desperation, and then repeat criminal behavior. > There is a real risk of exploitation Centralized systems always have a risk of corruption when powe…

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Re: Working on databases from prison

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Post by rustcleaner »

Aurornis wrote: post #295
TulliusCicero wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, 15-30 years seems like an insane amount of time for drug possession. Even if the amount implied dealing, that still seems really high. Don't people typically get less than that for sexual assault or armed robbery?

> Wow, 15-30 years seems like an insane amount of time for drug possession. The sentence was for intent to distribute. It's an extremely potent substance. This would be like discovering someone had 30,000 pills. You can't really argue that it was for personal use at that point. They also found him in possession of carfentanil (a more potent version of fentanyl), scales, baggies, and other products. This looks like a…

15-30 years is a bit heavy for 30 million doses even. 1.5-3 years is way more fair.

15-30 years of adulthood is like putting your child in timeout for 6 to 12 years (childhood being 0-19)! Is there anything your child could do to spend half his childhood living in a concrete room, maximum grounding? This is what we are doing to a man.

No. 12 years is public school length so that should be the life sentence, in the interest of keeping government in check. Think it's unfair in your case? Murder him when he gets out and serve your 12. Or... get over it, life goes on, etc. :^)

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