New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed

Re:New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, ... by jopsen on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:23PM (#15709843)

There are a few criminals who are completely out of reach. Whether that's physiatric lock up or prison depends I guess.

But most criminals, even most murders aren't out of reach.

Note: I'm not proposing that there need not be control initially. Merely that we need to be better at giving up control over time. And yes, you'll find exceptions.

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Re:New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, ... by mcny on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:44PM (#15709911)

I mostly agree with you. However, there is no incentive for justice reform. No politician has won any accolades for making prisons safer much less for reintroducing ex-convicts back into the mainstream society. However, if someone ran on that and (inevitably) when someone from a program like that goes off the rails then the politician risks their career. I'm not saying that makes it OK. I am just trying to analyze what the problem is...

I think the main problem is 1. most people just don't care about anything other than themselves and 2. they don't see of themselves in the same shoes as convicts

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Re:New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, ... by jopsen on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:29AM (#15711045)

In other countries we have political parties that say: "we don't want harsher sentences" and the like.

The US have political problems. They are unfixable as long as most of you have given up.

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