I hate to say it, but this is probably just practice for the real deal...

Are there any members from Mississippi who have direct knowledge of this? If so, share your story, we'd all like to hear a first-hand account of how this affects the citizenry of MS.

Originally posted by visualmiscreant
I hate to say it, but this is probably just practice for the real deal...

If and when"the real deal"occurs the agents of the government WONT be dealing with CHILDREN,lol.I almost pity these fools when people finally strike back...

Well my blood pressure just hit the roof, and what I don't understand is how the parents stayed quiet and how this wasn't a national outrage and why, they didn't inform the unlawful judges how they were going to be seeing some jail time and DEMANDING THEIR KIDS BACK, and chewing up the line upwards, over everyone's head to all the politiicians, and never shutting up, never sitting down, telling them, this unlawfulness is going to end with my kid out, and millions in compensation, the right way or I take a bulldozer to your jail house, I aint going home home without the kid AND without those who did this behind freaking bars!!!!!! And who am I, well your FREAKING BOSS!!! You either work for me or you hit the jail house.

Like everything else in life, "education", religion, gangs..... The younger you get them, the "better".
The younger the mind, the more pliable and the easier to shape to your own liking.

I'm in MS but on the other side of the state, Greenville. I'll do some checking and see what I can come up with. This is the first I've heard of it being implemented, but I seem to recall some discussion a few years ago about the possibility of this type of program. I'll get back to you shortly.

This is what happens when you privatize prisons and make them for-profit. There was the case out of PA where the judge was taking kickbacks for sentencing youths to detention facilities and prisons. It's sick.

The things that are tools for helping to make our society safer, healthier, smarter, etc. should not be privatized. We all have a vested interest in them - things like Schools, Hospitals, Prisons, Governmental Services, etc.

When we privatize those sorts of things we relinquish that interest for the benefit of saving a few bucks and our civil society is degraded. We lose the "common denominator" factor that helps keep society organized and strong. It just becomes a free-for-all devoid of ethics in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this kind of action has been around since I was in High School in the 1970's. They actually had truant officers at our school that would go to homes if parents did not call in an absence for their child. After so many misses, a child would be put into what was called at the time, an audi home. Not sure that I know exactly what that meant but, I can tell you I never wanted to find out!

Also, if your grades were suspect, and you had no reason for bad ones, this was also an option for parents if they could not get you up to par.

I see nothing peculiar with this, and I grew up in a very wealthy Chicago suburb. Even we, being rich brats were subjected to the same rules.

Sorry for being so cynical, but...
you voted for them as so did we.

I dont believe in them any more and the way I see it is that governments
are the same food, dish but with different sauce.
The only thing that changes is the sauce...