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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: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:24AM
Jumping Zarathustra on a triple-barreled rocket pogostick. We have people *who are still alive today* who remember the effects of eugenics policies.
Look, eugenics is one of those things like Communism or laissez-faire capitalism; in *theory* it could work, and be wonderfully productive besides. In practice, human nature is shit, and you'll just end up with genocide. You know, as was committed not 80 years ago in Germany? Aktion T-4 ring a bell for any of you?
Do any of you advocating for this seriously think it'll stop at "violent criminals?" Good grief, this isn't just a slippery slope, it's freaking greased with blood. If you think this won't soon be defined as "anyone the ruling class doesn't like," if you think there will be anything even approaching a just and evenhanded application of sterilization, you're either too naive to breed yourself (see what I did there?) or outright evil and merely pretending.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...