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The ACLU of Tennessee has criticized a judge's sentence reduction deal for inmates. Judge Sam Benningfield signed an order permitting a 30-day sentence reduction for male inmates who agree to have vasectomy and female inmates who agree to get the birth control implant Nexplanon, which prevents pregnancy for four years.
The program is voluntary. However, the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee has condemned the program, calling it "unconstitutional." [...] But Benningfield, who declined to speak to NBC News, told News Channel 5 that he is trying to encourage "personal responsibility" among inmates, who will not "be burdened with children" when they are released. "This gives them a chance to get on their feet and make something of themselves," Benningfield told the station.
Since the program began, 32 women have received the birth control implant and 38 men have agreed to have a vasectomy, News Channel 5 reported. It was not immediately clear how many men have undergone the surgery.
Inmates can get two days knocked off their sentences for attending a course about the risks of babies born addicted to opioids:
America's opioid crisis is expanding to a new class of victims—unborn children. Infants are being born with symptoms of withdrawal, also known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or NAS. In the last decade, states like Tennessee have seen a ten-fold rise in the number of babies born with NAS.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:47PM (1 child)
"Suppose tendency for low impulse control and impaired planning ahead is hereditary. Will this move have any effect to lower the amount of violent crimes in the long term?
It does have similarities to a control system with negative feedback and thus supposedly lowering bad behavior over time."
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The above is the truth most of the SJW idiots who are commenting here are willfully choosing to ignore. Factor in the environment in which a child grows up to the hereditary bit and you have a recipe for a high probability of "the apple not falling far from the tree", which means the child of a criminal is far more likely to become a criminal too.
The real world is not a fucking Walt Disney movie. You people who imagine everything can be fixed with enough tax dollars and patience are living in a fantasy world. Ask ANY judge, ask ANY cop, ask ANY probation officer. All these people do something you don't do, which is that they deal with the dregs of society in the course of their jobs. If you tried to tell them they were "unenlightened", they would probably look at you and shake their heads and laugh, as they walked away from what they knew was an encounter with a fool.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by darnkitten on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:22AM
On the other hand, my father's family is from a similar background, and he was only one of two extended family members of his generation to hold a job. My father left the town he grew up in, enlisted in the military, where he retired as a senior NCO. Though never particularly successful, he married and had 6 children, all of whom are contributing to society in a variety of areas from public service to healthcare, technology, education and the arts. His cousin stayed in town, and worked all his life to support the rest of the family. He never married, but, of my generation (not counting my family) he helped about half of them at least start higher education. So now, yes, some of them are chronically unemployed, but most work--again in various areas--from fast food to radio and healthcare.
Point being, my family in general was (and still is, though not within my hearing), considered the worst kind of "trash," and would have been considered candidates for sterilization (and might have been, had they been unfortunate enough to end up on the local orphan's home during the wrong period). My father and his cousin were part of the lot, but they broke out of the mold, and had a positive and disproportionate effect, which extends multiple generations and beyond this small rural community.
TL;DR--
--People are not their genes, nor their backgrounds, and, despite their predictive nature, you never know when someone will rise above their origins, because life is more complex than simplistic explanations.