Google could help out criminals by getting Washington to give away each one a free Nexus 7, a $250 cash card, and $250 of cloud space on Google in exchange for remaining rehabilitated. They also will get six weeks of training in how to use the Nexus 7 in how to use Blogspot and Youtube to make a blog and to monetize it.
Any former criminal who sells their Nexus for drugs or uses the Nexus for illegal purposes is subject to a $250 fine and 1 year in jail with 3 years probation and banned from the Internet for five years.
Oh, and they don't get a new mini tablet when they get out. They get a used Nexus 4 smartphone and 6 months unlimited talk but have to pay for unlimited texting with a carrier of their choice (a $1000 value).
Basically the ex-con is given a $200 cash-card for this purpose. On this card is a chip in it that will be checked when the reformee sees his probation officer. If he sells it, then the information on the chip in the card will prevent use by another person because the pin number for it will be checked against the buyer's ID. Anyone caught selling their cards is subject to a $250 fine. A person who forgets his card's pin number will have to pay a $20 fee to get a replacement which will only have the balance remaining assigned to it.
This will prevent reformees from profiting from this "freebie".
When they get a full-time job, they have to pay back the Govt. at $20/mo for 5 year for a total of $1200. the money from this keeps the program going. Any default on this results in a year's time in jail, and rejection from future enrollment in this program.
This idea can also be used to get the intelligent people with good memories off welfare before the monotony of being on the dole leads to endless poverty i.e. for new people on welfare who are determines to make money off Blogspot and Youtube creating their own legal content.
Google, make this work for the good of America.
Original post: October 26, 2013 at 12:29 PM PDT
First repost: December 20, 2013 at 07:32 PM PST
Showing posts with label rehabilitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rehabilitation. Show all posts
20130510
Flashback to 2010: Prison Advocate Tam Phan Seeking Pardon from NY Governor
According to Democracy Now, when he was 6, Tam Phan arrived in the United States from Vietnam. He later became involved with a gang and spent 17 years in prison.
After turning his life around, he is now pursuing a master’s degree in urban policy and administration at Brooklyn College and is working at the Fortune Society, a nonprofit organization that helps ex-convicts reenter society.
Yet Tam Phan has been given a final deportation order, and his only recourse is a pardon from New York Gov. David Paterson.
He'll be deported back to Vietnam, yet has never been to the country and cannot communicate in Vietnamese.
It's only a matter of time before he may be deported if Gov Paterson does not pardon him.
Tam calls America home, having been raised in Brooklyn.
IMO it is precisely due to anti-immigration lobbyists pressuring mayors of major cities to pass anti-immigrant law that rehabilitated ex-criminals such as Phan face deportation.
Reference:
Prison Advocate Tam Phan Seeking Pardon from NY Governor; Faces Deportation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiHYNK6ZRK4
The Fortune Society: http://www.fortunesociety.org/
20121026
Dear Ottawa: How to Fight Crime Using an Apple IPad Mini
The Canadian government should be buying iPad minis to give to people on welfare.
But there's a catch to this service:
If you don't return to a life of crime, then you get a mini.
If you don't use drugs anymore, then you get a $100 iTunes gift card.
If you don't prostitute yourself, then you get $400 worth of iCloud storage space.
If you stay away from crime and get a fulltime job, then you can pay off the debt of $1000 at $20 a month for 60 months (5 yrs).
Yep that's 20% interest on $1000 over five years.
After a year's assessment to see if you are a good citizen of Canada, the government should give the reformed criminal $100 iTunes card when he goes to the yearly probation interview.
The icloud storage cannot be used to store child porn. That results in an automatic jail time, without any guarantee another prisoner won't stick a shiv in your gut.
This is not a freebie.
But there's a catch to this service:
If you don't return to a life of crime, then you get a mini.
If you don't use drugs anymore, then you get a $100 iTunes gift card.
If you don't prostitute yourself, then you get $400 worth of iCloud storage space.
If you stay away from crime and get a fulltime job, then you can pay off the debt of $1000 at $20 a month for 60 months (5 yrs).
Yep that's 20% interest on $1000 over five years.
After a year's assessment to see if you are a good citizen of Canada, the government should give the reformed criminal $100 iTunes card when he goes to the yearly probation interview.
The icloud storage cannot be used to store child porn. That results in an automatic jail time, without any guarantee another prisoner won't stick a shiv in your gut.
This is not a freebie.
20070202
Tokyo Ice (poem)
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
all awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
afraid of love,
all alone in the middle of a crowd.
then i see you,
and we share the ice and chill.
all awake and wired until crash.
afraid of thinking
and of the bad people in the crowd
afraid of trusting
anyone who's mean to me.
that's what Tokyo ice does to you.
frozen in time,
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
acting like a five year old
when things don't go my way.
all awake and wired until crash.
wondering why that guy is following me...
all awake and wired until crash.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
my heart is pounding.
afraid of people,
am I going to die?
afraid of people,
maybe it's time to give up the fast life.
all awake and wired until crash.
no more, waiting quietly
in the hospital, did all the stupid things
the doctor said to do,
I even apologized to my parents,
but none of my friends came by.
it's time to wait for my meds,
and forget about that old life.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
who needs ice when i've discovered
how much my family loves me?
for i've found how warm
people can be when they care.
all awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
afraid of love,
all alone in the middle of a crowd.
then i see you,
and we share the ice and chill.
all awake and wired until crash.
afraid of thinking
and of the bad people in the crowd
afraid of trusting
anyone who's mean to me.
that's what Tokyo ice does to you.
frozen in time,
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
acting like a five year old
when things don't go my way.
all awake and wired until crash.
wondering why that guy is following me...
all awake and wired until crash.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
my heart is pounding.
afraid of people,
am I going to die?
afraid of people,
maybe it's time to give up the fast life.
all awake and wired until crash.
no more, waiting quietly
in the hospital, did all the stupid things
the doctor said to do,
I even apologized to my parents,
but none of my friends came by.
it's time to wait for my meds,
and forget about that old life.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
who needs ice when i've discovered
how much my family loves me?
for i've found how warm
people can be when they care.
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