Comments on: Texas Contemplating Mass Releases Of Improperly Imprisoned Juveniles

By: Pacific Views: Shaquanda Cotton Freed

Pacific Views: Shaquanda Cotton Freed — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:41:01 +0000

[…] And she was a sock smuggler, too. So I can see why authorities were concerned. Nonetheless, considering that her sentence may have been partly motivated by dislike of the girl’s uppity mother, it seems hardly fair. Perhaps they should have jailed her mother, instead. Jayzus. […]

By: Myca

Myca — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:10:48 +0000

Well thank freaking god. This can’t possibly come soon enough.

As I’ve noted elsewhere, the ongoing double standard when it comes to teenagers sickens me. The idea that teenagers are children when they want their basic human rights or they want to have sex with someone, but (WHOOPS!) they’re adults when we want to toss them in jail for a decade or more speaks to a deep dysfunction in our country.

—Myca

By: Sailorman

Sailorman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:32:55 +0000

well, THAT’S an improvement.

nice.

(not “nice” because it should be a problem in the first place, but “nice” in that it’s being fixed.)

By: aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

[O]fficials at the Ron Jackson Correctional Complex have repeatedly extended Shaquanda’s sentence because she refuses to admit her guilt and because she was found with contraband in her cell–an extra pair of socks. Via Alas, a blog.

By: fawnapril

fawnapril — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

worse

By: IST Control Center

IST Control Center — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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