re: Ohio woman gets herself 300 day contempt of court sentence

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I really wonder Roger if you know who stands between the woman and you, the Judge

No Judge, then you can deal with her personally because that is what we would have without it.

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That sounds terrifying!

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It sure as shite isn't excessive jail time.

My issue isn't her being sentenced to time. My issue is the amount of time. It's ridiculous and indefensible in this supposedly free country.

As someone else stated we've become way too immune to throwing people in jail and locking away the key, when we should be trying to work through the actual issues, not creating more.

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All of this contradicts this..

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As far as a solution? You can't fix stupid. It is what it is,

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So in other words you don't have any solution for the problem but you want to bitch about jail time. Got it.

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It's ridiculous and indefensible in this supposedly free country.

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Right. 300 days for disrespecting authority? Who the frick thinks this is a good idea?

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I bet the judge wouldn't give a white girl 300 days.

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What CRAP

It seems the lady thought it was a good idea, because she wouldnt quit threatenening to disobey a lawful order to stay away from the family member she assaulted. Chalk it up to another case of, "aint nobody gonna tell ME what to do" arrogance.

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She wasn't going anywhere except to jail. Let her do her 30 days and see what she does then.

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And just ignore any other behavior that warranted more than your standard 30 days contempt charge?

This isn't some kid who got popped on marijuana possession who got mouthy with a judge. This is a grown woman who DGAF enough to assault her grandfather who was providing her housing. She doesn't even have sense enough to not bite the hand that feeds her. We'll have to agree to disagree, but at that point she deserves the 300 days.

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I love how none of this is her fault.

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Where was this said? Her fault or not, she'll continue to be a nuisance to society without treatment.

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Well we live in a police state. Don't care. Take responsibility for your own actions

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Yeah, well that's not how the system is set up, so people generally don't do that now. Independence has shifted to dependence.

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Again she knew exactly what she was doing and if she didn't want to keep adding jail time she should have kept her mouth shut.

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Yes, most logical and level-minded people do that, which is why I said it is very evident she has issues that go beyond jail time. But it seems the legal system isn't results based - it's more of a numbers based type thing.

If one cant act civilized in a nuetral settinh, one shouldnt expect to be treated like a civilized person. Too many arrogant, self centered heatherns in this day and age.

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We love to lock people up. Meanwhile, we're supporting them in jail at a cost of (national average) $130/day. So roughly $40,000 for her time in jail, and if she has any dependents, we'll be supporting them too.

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So once again, what's the solution? You have an issue with jail cost, but if you want to actually treat the problem with anger management (and I'm not talking about the bullshite classes you go to for an assault charge because they're just that) then you're going to spend just as much or more. And you're still going to have to care for her dependents if she's in a long-term facility.

I have no problem with an alternative instead of putting her in jail, but right now it doesn't exist. And at some point you have to say enough is enough to open defiance in a courtroom against a judge.