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Kingston Police have issued an alert advising residents of the Southern Ontario community that High Risk Offender Eric Davidson-Brown will be released into the community January 11, 2013 after completing his term of a Long-Term Supervision Order.
Davidson-Brown was caught exposing himself to girls in North Bay in 2002 and near a Mattawa school with what was described at the time as a rape kit in his vehicle.
Any political ambitions of former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee could be hurt by his role in freeing Maurice Clemmons, the gunman suspected in the execution murders of four police officers in Washington State -- especially since Clemmons would not be the first criminal Huckabee helped to free who later committed murder. Clemmons was serving 95 years when Huckabee, then governor of Arkansas, commuted his sentence in 2000. Clemmons is now being sought in the murders of four Lakewood, Wash. police officers, who were ambushed and shot in a coffee shop Sunday morning. Four years earlier, Huckabee also pushed for the parole of rapist Wayne Dumond despite chilling testimonies from victims and their relatives that he was a dangerous criminal who would strike again. Ashley Stevens, a 17-year-old cheerleader when Dumond raped her, told ABC News in 2007 that she put her face inches from Huckabee's and said, "This is how close I was to Wayne Dumond, and I will never forget his face, and you will never forget mine. He's the one that raped me."
JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi sheriff says one of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon last year from the state's then-governor was involved in exchange of gunfire that killed another man. Calhoun County Sheriff Greg Pollan said Wayne Thurman Harris of Slate Springs and Chris McGonagill of Calhoun City got into an argument at a cookout and both of them fired guns. Both were wounded, McGonagill fatally. Pollan said no charges have been filed because he has not had a chance to interview Harris. Harris received a full and unconditional pardon from Barbour on Jan. 10, 2012, after serving a sentence for selling marijuana. Read more here: www.miamiherald.com...=cpy
Jan. 13, 2011 STATEMENT OF FORMER GOV. HALEY BARBOUR ON CLEMENCY I am very comfortable with the decisions I made during my term as Governor as to clemency. All this is consistent with the powers given the Governor by our Constitution, and I am fully confident the pardons and other clemency are all valid. Regrettably, many people believed from most accounts or misstatements that I released more than two hundred prisoners from prison. That is not true. The fact is: 215 people received some form of clemency. Of these 189 were not in prison; most had been out of prison for years, often many years. read more.
Originally posted by rimjaja
I recently went back to Ontario for a visit (had not been back for 10 years), so much had changed. It doesn't seem like home anymore.
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You are not permitted to punish the assailant or seek revenge.
Originally posted by AccessDenied
I simply can't wrap my head around it. I'm sure the argument is that even though he is a criminal, as is the case with Kayla Bourque, they have served their time and disgustingly enough also still have human rights.
In my opinion, if a person is considered a high risk and a public warning needs to be issued, they should not be released. Is the point of our legal system not to keep offenders off the streets and protect us from harm? What happened to that?
It is my opinion, that this man has zero right to be free.
Originally posted by iwilliam
Originally posted by AccessDenied
I simply can't wrap my head around it. I'm sure the argument is that even though he is a criminal, as is the case with Kayla Bourque, they have served their time and disgustingly enough also still have human rights.
In my opinion, if a person is considered a high risk and a public warning needs to be issued, they should not be released. Is the point of our legal system not to keep offenders off the streets and protect us from harm? What happened to that?
It is my opinion, that this man has zero right to be free.
Your point is not unreasonable. However, I think this is a very tricky issue for various reasons.
IMO the most sane response would be to sentence these people to facilities for the criminally insane instead of prison, where their "illnesses" can be treated... and further, facilities which would have staff far more capable of deciding whether these individuals were truly "safe" to re-enter a community.
Of course that most logical of responses would have some people all up in arms too, as they would claim that such a thing would be "getting off light," for the perpetrator. I would disagree with that claim, and invite anyone saying so to spend any extended time in a mental-healthcare facility.
But if we believe that most of these people act compulsively, and are highly likely to re-offend, we really need to start addressing that by treating this like a mental illness.
Originally posted by iwilliam
IMO the most sane response would be to sentence these people to facilities for the criminally insane instead of prison, where their "illnesses" can be treated... and further, facilities which would have staff far more capable of deciding whether these individuals were truly "safe" to re-enter a community.
Originally posted by intrepid
Originally posted by iwilliam
IMO the most sane response would be to sentence these people to facilities for the criminally insane instead of prison, where their "illnesses" can be treated... and further, facilities which would have staff far more capable of deciding whether these individuals were truly "safe" to re-enter a community.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. That's exactly what we need but there's no funding for it. Hell, we don't have enough beds for regular offenders and then we have to house the mentally ill? With NO way of treating them? Sad state of affairs.
Originally posted by AccessDenied
To those families in those towns, hide your children and hide them well.
Originally posted by Thurisaz
I have a theory about this kind of thing. = they release them so they can/will reoffend and keep everyone in jobs.
Originally posted by Thurisaz
reply to post by AccessDenied
I have a theory about this kind of thing. = they release them so they can/will reoffend and keep everyone in jobs.
sorry, I realise that this is a terrible thing to think but after what happened to little Daniel Morcombe in AU, (the killer was released from jail, known pedo who had raped two other boys) did 6 years, was released and he then moved state and killed Morcombe. The general public of AU were not informed/told that this SOB was from NT and had had priors...
if he had been policed correctly (even with an anklet) Morcombe would be alive today.