John Minto Quotes
One would think that if the State takes the extreme step of depriving a person of their liberty, then those the State employs to incarcerate must surely be directly accountable to the State. Privatizing that accountability is wrong in principle.
John Minto, New Zealand politician, educator, & political activist, Profiting From Imprisonment
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While Woodhull was an ardent feminist, she had a complete platform dealing with almost all aspects of society. At the time, women were unable to vote, and the support she did get came from men. She was a serious candidate. She was appealing to most of the mens issues of the time.
This is a paradoxical aspect of the parole system. If someone is granted parole, they must agree to state supervision of them for as long as the state deems it important. Random drug tests, access to their bank accounts, reporting any gang member may may contact and reporting to the parole board periodically are but 4 examples of the kind of supervision that can be required, So if a perceived dangerous criminal is considered too risky for parole after say ¾ of his sentence has been served, her serves the other ¼ and then is totally free and may not be supervised. He can move wherever he wants, do any kind of work he wanted and hank out with whoever he wants and the state can do nothing. If he had been granted parole he could be monitored and supervised as long as the state thinks it necessary.
This statement was an extension of the famous quotation of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. {603715}.
Criticism of the prison system comes from the right as well as the left.
“Patriot” meant someone who was a supporter of anti-monarchy dissidents and rebels. It was more than a good citizen. The prisoners were incarcerated because they had been accused of supporting the monarchy early in or after the French Revolution.
The sheriff was responsible for the Cook County Jail. At the time of the interview, Dart had 2500 mentally ill people in his job, making the Cook County Jail the largest insane asylum in the country. The worst part about that situation was that the jail is in no position to provide proper diagnosis and treatment for the mentally ill.
John Minto (born c. 1953) is a New Zealand-based political activist known for his involvement in various left-wing groups and causes, most notably Halt All Racist Tours. A 2005 documentary on New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers listed him as number 89. Today he is involved with the protest group Global Peace and Justice Auckland and the Unite Union. He also wrote a weekly column for The Press and was formerly editor of the (now defunct) Workers' Charter newspaper.
