Courts in Corpus Christi, TX have sentenced a young man to 8 years in state prison without parole for $7500 in graffiti damages. It does make you wonder if it’s a privatized prison with kickbacks to district judges that he’s going to doesn’t it?
Graffiti tagger sentenced to 8 years in prison
December 17, 2009 · 5 Comments
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Thomas Brodahl // December 18, 2009 at 10:21 am |
Holy crap. Thats insane. $7,500 = 8 years? For disrespecting…. property.
DeeMo // December 19, 2009 at 7:08 pm |
How can you sleep at night, knowing you sent a kid to spend 8 years of his life behind bars..for.. taggin? Still, I can tell from the tone of her voice, and the look in her eyes: she’s perfectly comfy with the idea. Personally,I find this is thing utterly f’d up and a major social failure.
Preston // December 29, 2009 at 9:26 am |
While I completely disagree with the purpose of this site, I do sit in shock and awe of the inane stupidity and ruthlessness shown here with this woman’s actions. She is a complete idiot and fool. People like this should not exist in the American Justice System. She is a worthless piece of shit for even thinking to take this young man’s life from him. He had a back up from a pastor even, and did you notice that one of the things he vandalized was an empty car lot?
Fuck, how stupid can you get woman?
Here is her Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/votejudgesaldana?ref=ts
Feel free to contact her with thoughts and feelings. I already did.
Preston // December 29, 2009 at 9:29 am |
My apologies, I’ve never visited this site, I thought it was a hate site.
Good to see someone being pro active.
I’m just fulfilling my promise to this woman, good to see others helping out.
Here is my angry letter to her. It would help if others follow the same format.
I’m sure you won’t read this, after all, what is the point of listening to the people? As it is, I feel a need to write this out anyway.
You are a fool. Let me ask, what is the point of sentencing a young man who has obvious control and anger issues to 8 years of prison? How does that make him want to help himself? How does that make him trust in the system? Why would that make him want to ever stop fighting against what he’s told to do, when it is people like you, at the top?
What does taking him from his friends, and his family do for anyone? He is 18 years old, and at the pinnacle of his life, he has/had millions of opportunities before him. Congratulations, you took that away for 7000 dollars. Most american citizens are farther in debt than that within six months of starting college. Why not make him pay the damages, why not make him paint over every single tag he made?
To make an example of him to a community? You know, in my experience, in communities in which they do that, they do it to get back at people like YOU. Self righteous egotistical people at the top, who’ ve no idea what goes on in the real community. You fix the problem with working with the community, not throwing people in jail. I’m all for the law, believe me, I was raised a solid republican, with a healthy amount of respect for law and statutes. However, there comes a time for reasoning, and zealous behavior is not the answer.
I lived in a town in Wyoming, for some time; which used to have a good deal of graffiti issues. They didn’t throw people in jail, they didn’t make unreasonable demands… Instead, they found a way to encourage and help the ‘artists’ of the community, respecting the talents that they had, the contributions they were capable of making, and still managed to cut crime rates.
They built a steel statue of the school mascot, a camel, in front of the high school, and then ENCOURAGED people to vandalize it. Graffiti crimes decreased ten fold. Sure, we had people doing it here and there, but it dropped to a negligibly noticeable level. Why don’t you try something pro active instead of throwing away a young man’s life? Something good and wholesome for the community, instead of holding what is equatable to a public hanging?
People like you do not stand for justice. For seven thousand dollars, you are stealing 8 years from a young man. Stealing away a possible career. Stealing away from a current family. Stealing away from a future family.
And now, in the middle of this depression, you have put one more able bodied person onto our welfare system (that’s all the prison’s are). Just because you live a cushy lifestyle, does not mean that the rest of us can afford to pay for every little person you view as a low life. Help them, not hurt us.
In conclusion, I’d just like you to know that because of you, I have just lost a little more faith in the American Justice System. As if I didn’t think it was flawed enough already. It is foolish people like you who will bring our country to it’s knees, with punishments, and no rewards.
I will rally against you, and I will make sure that as many people I can see you for what you are. Egotistical, foolish, unjust, and self righteous.
Good day to you, Asshole.
c // January 1, 2010 at 10:30 am |
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here’s the judges email