Today’s column looks at incarceration figures, and some of the reasons behind them.

America is re segregating...and it’s being driven mostly by multicult extremism in the education system. Segregated dormatories are now a sign of progressive, avant garde cultural accomodation.

As for disparity in sentencing or racism in convictions....according to the Justice Dept’s 2005 crime report, blacks, who make up 13% of the population, were responsible for 51% of all murders. There are no open drug markets in white neihborhoods. The little goth kid standing on the corner outside Short Pump Town Center isn’t going flag you down to buy crack or car jack you at the light. The guy with the rebel flag sticker in his back window isn’t going to shoot the ice cream man in the face just to prove to his crew that he’s a strait up pimp!

Arguing over sentencing is just a rewind of the same old “discussion” we’ve been having for my entire life. It’s not going to stop the next generation of black criminals from doing exactly what the last generation did.

The problem is no one is serious about discussing race...or if they are, they’re called racists by the politicians and activists who depend so heavily on black support and therefore shut down any discussion that could anger or insult their valuable constituency.

Notice that Howard Dean has already warned that any reference to Rev. Wright during the general election will be attacked as race baiting.

So we end up with a segment of society that is above criticism, is openly, racially pandered to and whose failures and irresponsible and immoral behavior are always...ALWAYS blamed on someone else for the sake of political expediency or moral self adulation.

The glorified “thug” culture that is responsible for most of the violence and crime among blacks would never be tolerated by the same white liberals who attack anyone who condemns it as being racially or culturally intolerant.

If the culture in the neighborhood is no different than the culture in the prison...it makes little difference where they end up...or grow up.

Look at the disparity between schools. Carol Wolf says Richmond still has a segregated school system, by de facto vs. the past’s de jure.

I tend to agree with her. Especially when downtown arts center boondoggles get more funding while school building funding gets shorted.

Given how the Times Dispatch has nonreported and cheerleaded, I would go as far as to say that the Times Dispatch still very much supports the racial disparity in schools.

But what do I know, I am just a citizen.

I’ve been under the impression that meaningful employment, or lack of it, is a large factor in who gets locked-up and for how long. ‘Benefit to society’, or something like that. I think most young black males who commit felonies have never held even one meaningful job in their life.

But...SO?!

In my humble opinion employment & societal status should have no bearing on sentencing. (Its not like their gonna be MORE employable after 10 - 25 years anyhow. Quite the opposite!)The sentence should be based-on the type of crime—alone.  That’s how to be fair and just. Virginia is not fair and just. The racial whiners have got a valid point.

No way, Jose! Items 1-7 are punative against a racial minority who is struggling to find its identity. The Boot Camp people pick on them, 3 strikes means building more prisons for black men, sex education discriminates agains single black women as if they were tramps, and border security hurts innocent latinos just trying to support their families.

Imagine making those babies attend prison schools. Light violence never killed anyone. Buying a BMW is a right all black men enjoy, now you want to restrict that. Next you will claim that HIV/AIDS is NOT whitey’s plot to get rid of the black man.

Shame on you for your racist suggestions!

That was a good thoughtful column but glaringly absent was any mention of those “alternatives” to incarceration, even from the people mentioned.

I have my own ideas, but none of them seem very easy to implement or non-contreversial.

1) Send 1st time drug offenders to boot camp or special prison instead.

Successful completion of sentence would wipe the crime off the books. This is important because if they want to find a job they don’t want to have a felony record.

These special prisons would not have career criminals or violent offenders. Separate specialized prisons depending on the type of criminal and how you intend to deal with them.

Not all people are the same so why do we lump them all together in prison ? 

2) Legalize some drugs to remove the financial incentive.

If you can buy a drug legally that removes the incentive to smuggle it in from Columbia, the incentive to sell it in order to buy a BMW, and the incentive to use gangs to distribute it.

Heavily taxed and regulated. You do not want to create an incentive for new drug users nor remove the stigma from using drugs.

3) Continue to clamp down hard on 3-strike laws and repeat offenders.

Acknowledge the hard fact that some folk simply can not be redeemed, no matter what, and present a threat to others.

4) Continue capital punishment with limited appeals.  Take out the trash.

5) Increase border security since most drugs enter the country across our borders.

6) Run some of the schools like medium security prisons.

People draw the line at what they are willing to do to insure children are safe. They should not do this. There should be no upper limit to the tactics used to insure the safety and well being of children.

7) Less us vs. them attitude from both the minority community and the mainstream. 

I’m not referring to the need for more cooperation. I’m saying more honesty, less finger pointing.

8) Less support for large single parent families. Make it very difficult for welfare mothers to exist if the mother is not gainfully employed and using birth control.

Yes, family planning. Sex education. 

Look at orphanages as alternative to foster homes.

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