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Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison
An anonymous reader writes with this news from California: "According to the article, 'Officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons say an inmate escaped from a minimum security area of the federal prison in Lompoc. Prison officials say Jeffrey Kilbride, 48, was discovered missing at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday....A search is reportedly underway. Prison officials say Kilbride was serving a 78-month sentence for conspiracy and fraud. He was due to be released on December 11, 2015.'" Here's why Kilbride was in prison.
Due for release in 2015? Not anymore.
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YEEEEEEAH
I'm glad when anyone manages to escape the US incarceration system, aka "hell on earth".
US Federal "minimum security" jails are well known "cake walks", just like most European "minimum security" jails. Often the "inmates" can hold down jobs on the outside (returning to jail at night), get fed reasonably good food, and often even take weekends and more extended vacations with relatives.
Oh yeah, US Federal "minimum security" is a tough game...
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But he was in a minimum security prison aka "Club Fed". The food is better and some of them even have golf courses and tennis courts. Next stop for him will be a real prison.
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No one escapes prison with such a short sentence left unless they have a good reason.
Happens all the time. It's related to the attitude of those that end up in prison: Many like this guy are narcissists.
US Federal Prison is a well known "cake walk", the food is not bad, the facilities modern and comfortable, with libraries and educational possibilities, and in many cases, the "inmates" can go home on weekends and for longer vacations.
Simply a fact that you have no clue what you are talking about.
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Only the spammers.
Minimum security prisons no longer as nice as you claim them to be.
The prison had such good spammer filtering in place that they couldn't even see him leave....
You forgot to allow for the delays in his progress for the times he stops to send unsolicited email to unsuspecting individuals.
Maybe in max, but in minimum, he will be sleeping on a bunk bed in a dormitory, with other white collar criminals, or criminals short to the gate. He isn't going to get raped, because that means the rapist is going to wind up getting a prison transfer to a real PMITA prison.
Federal prisons are not the craptastic private state/local lockups. They are run by the BOP which tends to know what they are doing, because they have top tier funding compared to spotty state money.
The escapee has gone from the frying pan to the fire. When he is recaptured (and Feds are instrumental in getting their man, as escapes make them look bad), he will not be escaping again... and likely get another ten years added to his sentence... which will be served in a medium to maximum security prison, and these "guests" are people who steal cars over state lines, or violent criminals. Life won't be in a quiet dorm. It will be in a two man cell, perhaps in a pod. He better be damn nice to his cellie unless he wants to sleep with one eye open for the rest of his sentence.
Minimum security prisons no longer as nice as you claim them to be.
Is that so?
http://www.askmen.com/fine_living/top_10/13_top_10.html
Oooo, and look right there: LOMPOC is number 8 on the list...
Given the perfect climate and time to spend outside, the bars are barely a bother as you plot your corporate comeback. Former home to Ivan Boesky and the Watergate guys, youâ(TM)ll be surrounded by a eucalyptus grove in a great wine region not far from Santa Barbara. Itâ(TM)s a pity the tennis courts were removed as a PR gesture to critics who felt guests at this luxury prison had it too easy, but (the good) life continues with the baseball field and volleyball courts.
Oh, and this: "Former inmate's description of minimum security Federal prison: sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll..."
http://boingboing.net/2012/10/23/former-inmates-description-o.html
Yeah, "Real1/1" Federal minimum security is tough business.
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Right they should just gas everyone with a 15+ year sentence
No, we should not be looking at incarceration as the default punishment for crimes. The only people that should be locked up are people that are a physical threat to other people. Anyone else should have an alternative punishment, such as working for victim restitution. No other country locks up as many people as America, and many other countries have lower crime rates.
He hasn't committed any sort of violent crime. There's no need to remove him from society.
Prison is not just for violent criminals, it's for people who break society's laws, and can not be trusted to behave withing society's rules without some motivation.
I suppose you think all non-violent criminals should be simply asked nicely not rip people off and otherwise "stop being jerks"?
Seriously, you're either a troll or a moron. Both?
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They do not allow people to take the weekends or even vacations off. You can request furloughs but those are only granted in extreme circumstances and if you have a perfect record once while in prison. I know people who were denied furloughs for funerals. You clearly have no first hand experience in the fed prison system.
It would be fitting if the banksters were sent to live in the Projects in LA or Chicago, so that they could actually experience what their manipulation of the economy did to real people.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Lets be real. Federal prisons are an exception, but most areas of the US have heavily private prison systems, with a contract from the state guaranteeing a 90% bed occupancy rate in every jail, prison, or detention camp.
With this in mind, there are a lot of judges and DAs who -have- to prosecute otherwise pointless cases in order to keep their job. If not, the private prison PACs will be handing money to a candidate who will.
I live in one of these states that has a very sizable private prison system. At one private jail, COs make $8/hour, while over at the county lockup that is public, entry level deputies are making 2-3 times that out of cadet training.
Here in the US, punishments are way out of proportion for crimes. Ever wonder why home invasion stats are spiking? Because the penalty for that is the same as a burglary, and there is less chance of being caught (women in general tend to be easily cowed/threatened and won't report a crime.) Same with murders. If robbery is 20-life just as homicide, might as well have a chance of walking since there are no witnesses.
Want to fix the US system? Stop making it a life sentence of unemployment for even a night in the clink for PI. Also, actively work on rehab, because the primary reason why US crime is so high compared to Europe is drugs (or the crimes that happen when people want their next meth rock.) Fix that, and you will see crime across the board drop. And, no, fixing it is not throwing someone with a meth, smack, or crack addition into Pelican Bay or Limon for life.
OK, suppose he had been working with really bad people on the outside, e.g. the Russian mob. Let's say these people were angry with him and he got wind of an assassination brewing. So he flips on the bad people but then needs protection. So, the Feds fake a prison break and whisk hm away to witness protection. Or is that just too wacko?
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You are right! It is just so much better to give convicts a really hard time with boredom and forced mental illness from harsh confinement. That way when they are released they will be so full of love that they will be a real blessing to society. WAKE UP!
You truly want it to happen...
You want the less powerful offenders, the non-violent ones, the ones who aren't so dangerous, raped by the most violent and physically dangerous prisoners. You want those already most dangerous ones to get the message that a moderate amount of crime doesn't pay, but pedal to the metal violent overdrive has its perks. You want the guards to have to work around criminals who expect to be bought off with a supply of victims instead of staying in line for fear of more punishment. You want the prisons to be full of racist gangs constantly ready to riot, and using protection from the rapists on the other side as their chief recruiting tool. You want the rapists and murderers in there to get more practice at violence before their inevitable release, more confirmation that violence gets them what they want. You want prison to not be as bad for the worst of the worst, by making it hell for the rest of the people in there.
Yes, you want it, and now you know, deep inside, that your want has nothing to do with justice.
Who is John Cabal?
Uh, yeah, I'm gonna need some proof on that. Everything I've read about US prisons have indicated that they're a barbaric hell of inhumanity and sadism. Given the current political and legal climate, that's what I'm inclined to believe until evidenced otherwise.
Nice. You fucked over millions of people wasting hundreds of hours per person over the years adding up to about 50,000 lifetimes dealing with your shitty spam so we'll make you pick up crap on the side of the highways for the next millennium or so 24/7/365. I like it. Punishment actually fits the crime.
You should use gmail and lose the hate along with the spam you'll no longer see. You'll live longer.
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Oh well. I'd just finished wading through my ISP's spam filter looking for an e-mail that got caught there. After looking at all that crap for the 20 minutes it took to find the legit message I needed it left me with a desire to choke the life out of these parasitic fuckers.
The only people that should be locked up are people that are a physical threat to other people.
The geek as white collar criminal is insufferably arrogant and self-absorbed. It is damn tough to break through that shell. Prison is the one thing he can't laugh off.
What email provider doesn't the one that resist get taken down look just at lavabit.
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