Grits for Breakfast: Parole rates rising, especially for aggravated sex offenders
I volunteer at a men's unit and one thing that I am noticing (no data to back it up just my personal observation) is that more guys are making parole that have served twenty or thirty years or more. Alot of my inmates have served since their teens or early twenties. It's good to see them getting a chance to be successful in the free world in their forties and fifties while they still have some opportunity to make a life for themselves and spend time with their aging parents and family.
Obviously this is also a win for the system if these guys can be successful on parole and not have to be supported into their old age by TDC.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Fast break between rain squalls
Better is one day in HIS courts than a thousand anywhere else! :)
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24
Ah a break between rain squalls.... the pond has risen back up to almost pre-drought levels! I can hear the ducks splashing around and the seagulls calling out for tasty donations. Where are the fish? I had somber results when I tossed some crackers off the pier a few weeks ago and they just floated, completely ignored by anything but a slight wind.... then one day 2 weeks ago I saw two fish happily jumping across the pond. Yes, two (I saw them at the same time) not an OnTheWater imagination creation! Some neighbor boys were fishing with their dad last week and said they caught and released 5 :) Too bad they didn't know what kind of fish they were! Would have been helpful information. Poor brackish pond, Hurricane Ike really did you a disservice, although we did enjoy catching and releasing the Red Fish before the drought....
Lord, thank you for this peaceful day and for the beautiful rain that we sorely needed. Amen
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24
Ah a break between rain squalls.... the pond has risen back up to almost pre-drought levels! I can hear the ducks splashing around and the seagulls calling out for tasty donations. Where are the fish? I had somber results when I tossed some crackers off the pier a few weeks ago and they just floated, completely ignored by anything but a slight wind.... then one day 2 weeks ago I saw two fish happily jumping across the pond. Yes, two (I saw them at the same time) not an OnTheWater imagination creation! Some neighbor boys were fishing with their dad last week and said they caught and released 5 :) Too bad they didn't know what kind of fish they were! Would have been helpful information. Poor brackish pond, Hurricane Ike really did you a disservice, although we did enjoy catching and releasing the Red Fish before the drought....
Lord, thank you for this peaceful day and for the beautiful rain that we sorely needed. Amen
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