r/prisonreform

I’m raising $1,000 to help a friend pursue paralegal education while she’s incarcerated.

She spent two years on pretrial release and stayed sober. During her two years of incarceration, she completed RDAP at camp. She’s working to make positive changes and prepare for life after release.

We’ve raised $200, and we’re trying to raise the remaining $800.

I know that education alone doesn’t guarantee what someone’s future will look like. But I believe investing in education and preparation is a practical way to support rehabilitation.

If you’re able to contribute, I’d be grateful. If not, sharing the fundraiser can help it reach someone who might be interested.

Here’s the link:
https://gofund.me/0e73bddb5

Thank you for reading.

The botched lethal injection of Christa Pike is not an anomaly. In fact, lethal injections have the highest rate of failure out of all forms of capital punishment. And research into the death penalty shows us how far back these botched executions go, and why they happen so often.

Ok so heres the deal. A friend of mine is in guadalupe county texas jail and has been for 4, going on 5 months. Last Saturday i finally got enough money together and was able to post his bond. After i pay 1500 bucks im then told he needs an ankle monitor before they will release him. The county provides 2 companies that are approved for the monitors. Heres the issue thou. Neither company will answer a single phone call. Me, my wife and a friend have called both numbers well over 100 times and left countless voicmails. Heres another odd thing. One of the companies has a forfeited llc or at least the texas state website says its forfeited and yet the county is still supposedly using them for ankle monitors. I've called the county multiple times asking for advice and help getting in touch with either company but am told to just keep calling. His bond was posted 5 days ago is only there because the numbers they provided as "approved anke monitors" refuse to answer a single call. Idk if theres anything illegal about this but it feels like it has to be.

For all those who want to see people in prison but haven't a clue what it's like know this America is one of the richest countries in the world but in the federal system they don't even give you deodorant or enough soap and toilet paper to get thru a month you have to buy it coffee to it may be made on the weekend and or holidays maybe. For the dont do the crime if you can't do the time do you know every law or circumstance you will get into in life? At 18 you could end up in fed prison for years did you know everything at 18? We should be ashamed of ourselves we still have the Death penalty we are supposed to have justice but we are also supposed to be better then the worst of the worst. Good luck every one hopefully one day things change keep on fighting for it

All the debate on this sub has forced me to think about developing new techniques for executions that would be effective, efficient, and relatively painless for the condemned. I've developed a new technique that I think might address most of these concerns.

The condemned person would be fitted with a hard polymeric collar around their neck. The collar would include a GPS module, an rf transceiver, a processor, and one or more explosives that are shaped charges. When the order for execution is authorized an instruction can be transmitted wirelessly to the device, causing the processor to detonate the charges in the collar.

Death would be instantaneous so the condemned would not suffer. The nice thing about this system is that it would not require any of the sort of barbaric rituals still practiced in executions. The condemned would not have to be led to some sort of execution chamber, or even informed in advance of the execution order. In fact, they would not necessarily have to be kept in strick confinement. They would not even know the time had come. One moment they could be walking in a forest or hiking on a beach and the next moment the charges are triggered and their head is separated from their body.

Would this type of system pass the legal tests for cruel and unusual punshment?