We in Lorain city were receiving 10 RSO’s a day ( and please remember that being a RSO is usually only “part” of their record- these were not people returning home but being sent to a community . After the 30 -90 days that BCS paid for their housing was up they were left to go into the neighborhoods, some ended up homeless, some in shelters, some under the bridge and some back in prison and some are in our neighborhoods…. there are thousands being released from Ohio’s prisons due to the mandatory sentencing cycle coming to an end….

They were sent here because of affordable housing , a great number of social service agencies etc.

I asked why Lorain when we have no jobs even for people without a criminal records because other communities won’t accept them and although they don’t specifically target an area they tell the inmates where they “won’t” be accepted ( according to the people I interviewed)

I told the Bureau of Com Sanc you are setting these people up to fail by pointing them into these communities and quite frankly we have some “bad dudes” being imported into Lorain ( not good for them or for us)

I did go into more detail in my other post but I suggest you look at the “family watch dog site” overlay those areas with housing foreclosures and unemployment and check out the Adult Parole authority
http://www.drc.state.oh.us/OffenderSearch/Search.aspx

You can access RSO’s and we were getting 10 a day into this community from the State with a program called “Independent Housing” which paid a non profit to house them for 30 to 90 days to aclimate them into the community (these were not returning to their home town people.)

Then when the time was up at the “group home” they put them out on the street, some ended up in shelters some in the cardboard box city near the bridge, some ended up involved in major drug busts and rapes ( all in a year) ….these were the trackable.

I wrote many articles and reports on this at the time I spoke to the “Bureau of Community Sanctions” a huge agency that heads these programs asking why are your sending literally hundreds of people into this community ..apparently we have the greatest number of social service agency’s and affordable housing BUT we have no jobs for citizens without a criminal record so I said you are setting them up to fail that I was told is not their problem they have served their time …….

.. and fail they have .too long to post here but I have been tracking and usually with the really bad guys a RSO is only part of their criminal record ….. I have seen the results and according to the Bureau there are thousands and thousands being released due to the end of mandatory sentencing cycles coming to an end….
check out your county for those on parole
http://www.drc.state.oh.us/OffenderSearch/Search.aspx
and check out family watch dog site over lay that with the foreclosures and the unemployment stats for your community

I asked why Lorain was seen as a suggested destination and was told ( even by some of the people with various records during interviews) “other communities that do have employment opportunities won’t accept them”….
so we have clustering , no jobs, and an aging population that quite frankly is easy pickins…5 houses down from my mother has now housing 2 rapists) robbery and assault) , one drug dealer sexual battery , 2 on parole…. and those are just the trackable…….. and yes the house was broken into for the first time in 30 years whilst they went to the store….( and no I am not pointing fingers I am just saying coincidence??? you tell me …….

It is precisely forgiveness that judges offer; the official forgiveness of a crime after the criminal has made full restitution by completing the judicial sentence.

At the end of that sentence, our laws say we’re even.

Very early in her career, writer Marge Piercy created a society where The Rule of Law said: two strikes and you’re dead.

It worked like this.

Commit a crime and you were allowed to make restitution, promise to never commit another crime and return to society.

Commit a second crime and, having proven that your word was no good, you were deemed defective and promptly executed; the idea being that no criminal should be a cost burden to society.

I much prefer a system of Justice and Mercy to one driven solely by Justice.

B’shalom,

Jeff

What amazes me is that people cannot see the work that needs to be done.

The problems with blankets of forgiveness is that of opportunity for the repeat offenders, that may capitalize on a venue you allowed them access to.

Job codes, real ID cards and linked datasets. Certain offenses obviously should exclude certain employment.

I am not interested in any more secrets under the guise of privacy, part of selecting the best candidate pretty much excludes felons.

I believe its the decadence and the flaunting of it that drives crime, I think the just recourse is offering more for less.

Then you have this fortress of the liberal rich, that manipulate with so many words on so many pieces of paper.

Victims offer forgiveness, not Judges. Forgive and forget is a precursor to anarchy. Get to the root of the problem. That’s getting people to have some pride and dignity and too much self respect to subject themselves to prison and the life that follows incarcerations.

You people are not good Sheppard’s, you tend to the flock on the edge of cliff. You want to tie ropes to their legs and if they fall off you can drag them back. I chase them into the valley and you lead them back to the cliff…why?

That’s true, you’re absolutely correct.

The one glaring fact that destroys any idea that America is a Christian nation is the simple reality that we very rarely forgive our criminals, regardless of what society-mandated hoops they may jump through.

B’shalom,

Jeff

He is calling for regionalism asking for each state to draw up a plan, then each state should ask for the same and in Ohio it should focus on regional efficiency. In each region it breaks down to you and me and the household.

That money needs to be used to create jobs, and those jobs need to create better neighborhoods that are highly efficient and well thought out. The key is low cost housing without limits, the best for less. The people that build and renovate the housing live in it and the surrounding commerce support it.

You tell the high school students this is what we are doing and this is how you can get involved. They then take ownership and the pride that prevents them from thoughts of crime.

A living wage is imperative, and those that fall below that lowest wage should be some how unable to manage, not do to lack of work do to lack of capability.

If one third of the population has a household income between 25-50 thousand dollars then everything that is a necessity must be available to them. For some to be able to get over 20 thousand a year is nearly impossible and to exist at that level your destined to fail.

Somebody must own a calculator? Twenty thousand is $9.00 an hour and most cannot attain it and if they do they cannot exist at that level. If they do it is in squalor surrounded in blight.

The result of a long chain of events, the question keeps being asked how do you change the last link?

Housing is the largest necessity, it needs to be clean safe and affordable and exist in clean safe and affordable neighborhoods. The lowest incomes produces no return, if you build housing and charge nearly nothing you never get that investment back.

Building at a breakeven and finding the living wage will bring about fuller employment and reduce the need for housing that losses money.

If it does not exist at the breakeven, if the price is not affordable to the majority at a break even then the market is outside of limits and needs to be adjusted.

It’s demonstrated in the excesses, and a fallacy of need and those that exist beyond need. If some cannot earn it if they cannot archive it, they will just take it.

The lowest level of housing is prison.