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Piotr Dabrowski, 58, could not pay the £80 imposed for the offence when he appeared at the city's Magistrates Court.
The district judge refused to give him a conditional discharge saying he had two other begging convictions and that it was clear they had not deterred him.
Originally posted by illuminnaughty
Well hes no longer homeless and will get 3 meals a day and a warm bed.
Originally posted by tristar
Originally posted by illuminnaughty
Well hes no longer homeless and will get 3 meals a day and a warm bed.
So i guess the solution is to jail as many as possible rather than trying to incorporate them back into society. Sorry that does not fit in my line of work or assessment of a threat to society. Perhaps if i dig a little deeper i may well find some dirt on that particular judge that should send him to the ideal place for 3 square meals amongst all those other gentleman and it wont be the fist time a judge has been found guilty on various counts.
Originally posted by Awolscout
Originally posted by tristar
Originally posted by illuminnaughty
Well hes no longer homeless and will get 3 meals a day and a warm bed.
So i guess the solution is to jail as many as possible rather than trying to incorporate them back into society. Sorry that does not fit in my line of work or assessment of a threat to society. Perhaps if i dig a little deeper i may well find some dirt on that particular judge that should send him to the ideal place for 3 square meals amongst all those other gentleman and it wont be the fist time a judge has been found guilty on various counts.
So essentially in your mind, the man starving to death or freezing to death instead of three hots and a cot is the better alternative? Putting all rhetoric aside on the street this guy is going to die a whole hell of a lot faster than he would in a controlled environment. A controlled environment where he can do things like eat, sleep, shower, wear clean clothes, get a chance to talk to someone from a rehabilitative service, get a chance to possibly seek help for any kind of addiction he may have. It is quite possible that these things right here are why he was sentenced, assume that the judge was "omg evil overlord" about the ordeal does not suit progressive thinking.
Originally posted by tristar
What evil overlord are you talking about. The so called Judge should have placed him into a work program and not thrown him in jail for 3 square meals and a hot shower. Is that your solution to the homeless ? . In my books, ALL THEY NEED IS AN OPPORTUNITY AND JAILS DO NOT OFFER THAT..!
excuse the caps.
It is not through choice, that people become homeless [although, if it is, then that 'choice' would be the last resort.] Neither is it through laziness [which is another fallacy that people like to spout about.]edit on 19-2-2011 by tristar because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by badw0lf
reply to post by Awolscout
So, being sent to prison as punishment is now a good thing to do for people less fortunate than the rest.
I get it. Great concept.
We can do away with mental hospitals too, we can send them to prison, it's got three hots and a cot, and all the wonderful companionship of fellow citizens who may be rapists, murderers, violent scumbag psychopaths, but it's a good thing.
Hell, make not having a job a crime. We can keep all of society in prison and only let the elite few out to work.
I think I read about this sort of society somewhere....