'Do You Think Prisoners Should Be Entitled To Paid Vacation?': John Kennedy Grills ACLU Official
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
- At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned Jennifer Turner, Principal Human Rights Researcher at the American Civil Liberties Union, about her views on prison labor.
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This gal is absolutely NUTS! !!!
Yes. When prisoners get sick the state should not give them healthcare??????
And so is the guy sitting behind her!
@@catchfry9639
He sure looked like a looney toon 😂
What a joke the ACLU is.
Good old southern Christian values and faith/love being exhibited in these comments and by this privileged white man!!! Atheists live more than most southern Christian’s
What a clueless Karen!
😂😂😂 she's not clueless, she's reckless. She should take each prisoners to her home. I will wait for a written report.
Prison is a punishment not an entitlement
No pay. No work no eat
I agree!! Have prisons bid on jobs and beat any competition!! They don’t have to pay the prisoners. Then the private prisons can make money. Save us tax dollars!! They will have so much work!!! The price of their bids will beat anyone!! Go back to the way they use to do it!!!
agree 100%
@familypowergroup I am over 60, and have never been in jail for anything, nor will I ever be in all probability. Don't do the crime if you cant do the time!
if they get paid should they also pay rent?
They work to pay court cost instead of Taxpayers this lady is crazy as hell
That's the aclu for you.
No they don't. Most prisons are private entities that make profit. They don't do anything for the taxpayer.
so our taxes pay for judiciary services, law enforcement, penitentiary system, staffing, food, medical care, and now we need pay minimum wage for people that cant follow the law? man, if they allowed women and men to live together maybe i should start living the crime life....... this world is going crazy
@@onemocko9269They even get full dental care! How many regular working people have that?
@@sippigrrrl Re: "They even get full dental care."
They do not. They get emergency dental care only. Please check your bs before blah, blah, blahing--I thank you.
Prisoners should be entitled to nothing. They are being punished not sent on holiday
That's right, so they should not have to work while in prison if they don't want to.
@@terrya8989 Agree with you!!
With the understanding that law-abiding citizens also do not have to work if they do not want to work, and those law-abiding citizens who choose to not work must bear the fiscal consequences of not working. Likewise, those jailbirds who chose to not work should also feel it in their prison commissary accounts.
The aclu needs to be removed.
For, the zoinist are trying to destroy America.
With jews you lose
The aclu is a liberal joke
AMEN! They are a communist organization, and always have been.
This crap is getting CRAZIER and CRAZIER every DAY!!!!
This is the type of woman who marries a dangerous inmate who is doing 25 to life for a violent heinous crime. "Randall is just misunderstood. I know he kidnapped, gRaped, murdered, & dismembered 6 young children, but that was almost 2 years ago. He's learned from his mistakes & is a different person now".
Prison is punishment, not a job! This woman is stupid.😡🇺🇸
How do you expect somebody to come back to society and be able to even be given a chance to succeed if they do not have any financial standing to start off with? People are making $20 an hour and still struggling to pay rent and buy groceries.
The fact that some prison labor is making 8 cents an hour is incentivizing privatized prisons incarceration rate to increase because the dividend is going into the prisons' pockets.
Consider those facts when you want to complain about the recidivism rates, or the organized retail theft, or other social problems.
@@USGovIsDistributingCSAM your arguments are total BS.
So, are you saying you support slavery?
She calls it forced labor. Shouldn’t it be seen as community service?
They are changing up the definitions yet again and as usual, makes no sense
What ever happened to punishment? You should be punished if you are found guilty of a crime. Work should be mandatory for all prisoners as a form of punishment, not a job.
No. Being in prison is the punishment. Not having to work to make some company even more richer on top of it.
@@terrya8989 Not having to work makes it less of a punishment and the vast majority of the work is growing their food, laundry, kitchen, picking up trash or mowing the lawn on roads and public properties. They're not building I-phones for Apple. They're actually saving you taxes.
@@terrya8989
Graduate of a flakey liberal arts college and a left wing law school.
Still better than having to sell your soul for and bow down to an insurrectionist.
@@michaelccopelandsr7120 Who? No one has been charged or convicted of insurrection.
@@markthebuilder9837 sorry, attempted insurrectionist
Said the attempted comedian.
@@michaelccopelandsr7120stop talking about BLM like that.
The dude over her shoulder is all too giddy.
So from where will this money come from? The tax payer?
Prisons are privately run and most receive almost no taxpayer money.
@@patrickbateman1660BS!!!!
@@patrickbateman1660Lol… You need to do a little research, Patrick. 🙄🤣
@@patrickbateman1660 Obviously, you work for the ALCU. Let me provide you with a little info: for both public and private prisons, the vast majority of revenue comes from government sources.
Where else?
Has America gone insane
YES !
Yep
Yep, COMPLETELY!
Just let me say, YES!
Yes it has
God helps us. THIS IS INSANE. THERE IS A REASONS THEY ARE IN PRISON. THE IS NUTS I TRULY HOPE WE CAN GET OUR COUNTRY BACK
Why is he sitting there with that creepy smile??
@@SGLV1that is not a smile, he is a mouth breather.
@@SGLV1doesn’t he look like Sloth from the Goonies?
@@courtneesdadomg… I see it! Poor guy
Re: "There is (sic) reasons they are in prison."
Hopefully to learn how to be better citizens. How to work and how work can make their lives better.
agree, she is nuts
And that's being extremely kind and she's probably being paid way too much for whatever she's not doing
She seems like the type of woman who marries a dangerous inmate who's doing 25 to life for a violent heinous crime. "Randall is just misunderstood. I know he kidnapped, gRaped, murdered, & dismembered 6 young children, but that was almost 2 years ago. He's learned from his mistakes & is a different person now".
Re: " She is nuts."
Why? What exactly has she said that is delusional rather than something that you don't agree with?
Does this Karen know how much it costs to give room & board to each prisoner? Has she factored that into any of her bleeding heart calculations?
Obviously she is not that smart
Does she think they should also pay rent and grocery bills?
Since court ordered community service is "jail" then they should also get paid.
@@SW-mc2zx maybe she hasn't come up with that idea yet. Let's hope she doesn't.
Several years ago in Ca. the cost was $50,000 a year to house ONE inmate. If he/she had special medical needs that price goes WAY up. Today I can't imagine what the cost would be.
@@johnschick5827 which is one of the many reasons I don't think they need a paycheck. I think that they should work to earn their housing and their clothing and their medical and their food. And since that cost has gone sky high and you can't even live on minimum wage any job that they would have the paycheck is gone taking care of them.
She must have worn a mask in her personal car to this committee hearing. ..........the lack of oxygen to her brain is mind boggling
She seems like the type of woman who marries a dangerous inmate who is doing 25 to life for a violent heinous crime. "Randall is just misunderstood. I know he kidnapped, gRaped, murdered, & dismembered 6 young children, but that was almost 2 years ago. He's learned from his mistakes & is a different person now".
Brain? LOL!
The ACLU needs to get ACLUe. (Dennis Miller)
YT censors content
John Candy's ghost hanging out in the back eating up every word this lady is spewing.
Not "workers". They are incarcenated PRISONERS.
What planet is she from
Oh jeez. What the hell is she talking about.
We can't tell what is going on because Kennedy turns it into a Republican CLOWN SHOW as usual.
She's talking about treating rapists and murderers like law abiding minimum wage workers.
@@Adeon55yes she is and she is completely totally 100% wrong! They're in prison for a reason
It's as if the goal is to abolish any punishment for criminal behavior.
protecting her job.
So she wants to encourage criminals to commit crimes so they can earn a living? What happened to "if you do the crime, you do the time". Prison used to be called hard time.
So go back to chain gangs? Sounds like a good idea to me it might be a very big deterrent to some of the crime going on
@dianasims6819 maybe not chain gangs or busting rocks. I had 2 neighbors that served time in prison. One decided he didn't want to go back and started a cleaning business. The other learned upholstery and also started a business. Their insensitive, prison was a bad place.
These people are insane. Send her to prison to meet these fine individuals.
This is nuts. Prisoner should be punished
What are you goi g to pay a prisoner who has a life sentence with no possibility of parole. They should all work at something. Payback society for the injury you have caused. If they had worked outside prison maybe they wouldn't be in prison
It would be one thing if it was prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes with short sentences, and I'm not saying I'd agree with it even in that situation, but like you pointed out prisoners with life sentences is nuts. And if they did receive the kind of pay she's talking about then they should have to pay compensation to their victims, if their victims are dead then it should go to any children the victim's had , and if they have no one then it should go into a victim compensation fund.
if they are getting paid, they should pay for rent on their cells and meals, just saying.......
That's what I said. They're working to pay their room and board. And I'll bet those places have very high electric bills too
Pay for utilities too
Prisoners who are paid minimum wage should be charged for their room and board.
are we in the same planet ? wtf.
Is this lady for real . They are prisoners lol . Now they think they should get paid... wow . Just wow .
Am i missing something here? I thought these are people in prison.
So this woman wants to make prison a career choice.
Check out the guy over her right shoulder; NOW that's something that might do well in prison.
lol ya he definitely eats corn on the cob the long way
Lol ya he eats corn on the cob the long way
I agree!
@@shellystino And if he is one of her staff members, then the prisoners have a BIG problem.
Right, the head nodders are really popular in male prisons.
They should pay the prisoners more than a dollar a day but they should also make the money go to their kids and their families and their victims so people being in prison in jail is not such a burden on the families
You're wrong. My husband had his Jeep stolen. The kids excuse he got tired of walking. My husband's comment get a job! My husband was working to support himself and our family. He took my husband's Transportation my husband rode a bicycle to work for quite a while after that because we couldn't afford another vehicle. And then that little SOB earned some kind of money every day he's but was in jail for doing nothing towards his finest. When he was released he was to pay my husband back. He did not do that. He wound up in jail again because he didn't pay my husband the money he owed. They have nothing because they want everything for free. It does not work that way
@@JJ-jn5lr well I don't think they deserve a single Penny while they're in jail. And yes they need to be working. They need something to do. If you don't want your butt in jail working for nothing don't do the crime. And when they get out they're giving a minimal amount of money and if that doesn't work I guess they can rely on family and friends. Course after they've been in jail like that maybe they don't have any families and friends but that's their problem they did it to themselves
@@JJ-jn5lr yeah that's over and done with. The thing is they're in jail because they've broken laws. That means they have no rights. They have no right to vote or anything else. They have medical care I don't know how good it is. But they have medical care. Some people out here working and being productive members of society don't even have that. I don't know where you had your issue. But in this country they used to have chain gangs. And they literally made them break rocks in the stones. Whatever they do they need something to do so that they're not sitting there thinking about revenge for 10 or 20 or 30 years. They don't need to get out and cause more problems they need to be busy and productive. They've got a roof over their heads they've got a place to sleep you got three meals a day and they're not doing a thing. I'm sorry but I don't think they deserve anything more
Those who think the inmates shouldn't get anything you think they will do anything for nothing you must be higher than they were when they committed those crimes
Heard it all now
They should also have to pay rent. utilities, food and health insurance cost.
Pay them then charge them for room and board
But like us they need to be charged more for room and board than they make
Many states already do.
You Can't Fix Stupid😂
Their compensation is food and water, shelter. I think prison should be hell on earth so they will do whatever it takes to not repeat offend.
Exactly. Anybody for a chain gang again
Wow, free food, a roof over your head, a job, guarantied minimum wage, insurance, health care. Man I need to get me a prison cell! Sounds like your better off there, then out here.
You forget to mention Free education, some comes out with law degree.
Huh, another dei hire I see
She seems like the type of woman who marries a dangerous inmate who's doing 25 to life for a violent heinous crime. "Randall is just misunderstood. I know he kidnapped, gRaped, murdered, & dismembered 6 young children, but that was almost 2 years ago. He's learned from his mistakes & is a different person now".
who is the clueless bobblehead behind her? What a puppet
That guy behind her added some much needed comic relief 😂
What a joke totally unbelievable thank God for Kennedy
Last time I checked volunteering for work doesn’t usually mean you’re gonna get paid.
And as far as I'm concerned when they went to prison they volunteered to do what they were told to do because they can't behave themselves like a normal person.
Love when these Leftists won't answer a simple question.
The guy behind her needs some popcorn
They should be paid and their wages should be used for restitution and then their upkeep to be housed in a correctional institution.
Who's going to pay them ? They don't have an employer
No. We the people are paying them. We are also paying for a family because they are a criminal.
Why should we pay both .
This woman had to take crazy lessons, this isn't a normal level of insanity.
If prisoners were paid, then they should pay for their room and board, for clothes, for everything they receive.
A lib can never give a simple yes or no answer
I couldn't stop looking at the 'yes' man behind her! This is a waste of time for everyone in that room..
LOOK!!! THEYRE IN PRISON FOR A REASON!!! TO BE PUNISHED FOR A CRIME!! NOT TO MAKE MONEY TO BLOW ON DRUGS AND TO HAVE FOR BRIBERY CLOUT OVER OTHER INMATES IN JAIL!! WOE!! IS THERE A CURE FOR LIBERALISM??¿??
ACLU documents once again how ridiculous they are. Just a time and money wasting nuisance...
Thank for reminding me there's actually people out there like this woman. Jeez!
Damm they already take a third of my check, what's next a ppp prison payroll pension. Shmm
Where do they find all these people that are absolutely determined not to answer any question, but rather try to take the opportunity to further their nonsense?
Our law makers are doing this BS instead of taking on our real problems, and maybe she should pay them 😅😮
I worked for the NC Dept. Of Corrections as did most of my family. There were inmates that held jobs in the enterprise factory that generated products used by other state agencies, road signs, printed forms and documents and license plates. These inmates were paid $.50 per day placed in an account that followed them if they were transferred to another facility. Other inmates held custodial responsibilities in the dormitories, they were paid with a point system that allowed them to pick which dorm they wanted to live in, all others were not paid in points or money, they were assigned accommodations without any choice involved on their part. Like someone said, prison is punishment, not a job for which they should be paid, inmates are paying a debt to society for a crime committed against society.
lol 😂 who’s that guy in the back that keeps shaking his head and smiling? What’s he’s so happy about? Lol
They should have to work to pay off their legal fees and imprisonment.
How in the living hell do these people get far in life?? Absolutely astonishing!
She says many of those "workers are not paid instead of using the word prisoners. She thinks they are not prisoners but workers. She frequently uses the word "worker" for "prisoner".
So you have an incarcerated 20 year old being provided with shelter, food, clothing and medical, paid for by us, the tax payers and she believes they should be paid the same as a law abiding, 20 year old working and has all the expenses of having to pay for their own housing, food, clothing and medical? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. This whole country has gone nuts!
This woman has no clue how much inmates already cost the taxpayer. Corrections budgets are already nuts. Where I live, max inmates cost close to $60k per year per inmate.
How are these people even employed? Even by the ACLU standards, this is low.
Two words for this lady, COO COO!!!
These people have lost it ..Whatever they are smoking must be good stuff
ACL-DELULU
Thank You Senator Kennedy.
oh dear.
Prisoners should not be entitled to anything while in prison
What a blabbermouth.
Pay for room and board
They are already getting 3 square meals a day and shelter and clothes. The work they do should be considered compensation for those items.
they should then pay room and board
They don't deserve pay. They are being completely supported by our taxes. They need to work to pay that bill. And they don't see a dime of it it goes straight into paying for their food their housing their utility bills and all of that stuff
Free room and board, why do they need pay?
What in gods word has our world become so upside down !
Good Lord. Glad I don't donate to this organization!
Lol apparently she's never had a loved one harmed seriously
Its prison. She's out of her mind.
God help us, how did she get to where she is? This is scary shit.
I mean…. If house members can skip Work and fly to NYC to help a defendant break his gag order several times on the taxpayers dime…. Why not?!?
She's crazy
Why Forbes cut it off 🤔
These people are insane!!
I may not agree with this woman's position but at least she sticks to it and answers the questions. Most of these witnesses verbally duck and dive, and try to weasel out of admitting to what they actually believe.
She has to be crazy
Well in that case I guess they should pay for rent and their food...
thinking this trough, if society pays prisoner for actual work performed at minimum wage only. They they should reimburse tax payers room and board, court fees, prison fees, probation fees, victim restitution, they pay SS, workmans comp, execution fees, all legal fees, any and all expenses from the time they are arrested to the time they are released off probation. Included law enforcement that ended up arresting them. To include all medical expenses, facility costs, guard cost...... No expense overlooked. No exceptions no breaks. Finally, we could have games where we pardon one person that participates in a fight to the death the finish and televise it. Winner take all (okay their freedom) The television rights would be like pay per view to help pay for prisoner expenses.
It's a mad house...a mad house!!!!!
Abolish the aclu
Prisoners should pay for their stay, food, the buildings, etc. Why should I have to?
She's saying crime should pay.
Convicts should not be paid give the money to the victims.
I'm curious if she'd argue so passionately for the victims of these criminals.
That dude behind her is the exact replica of Sloth from the Goonies. He looks like a goofball
How did we get to this place? the world is nuts!
Prisoners are not worthy of anything, no entitlements, no personal crap. It’s prison!!! Criminals!!!!
I like this ladies honesty. Most often people who believe as she does will not actually admit it during testimony. You have to credit her for her honesty and straightforward answers. I do not agree with most of what she believes, but at least she has the courage to state it and not obfuscate.
she should just let them all out of prison...
They work to pay SOCIETY back for their room and board and their health care!!!!!! WHY would the taxpayers want to pay people who break our laws??????