Good questions, John. You are prisoner of your chair only if you consider yourself to be. I often do and sometimes the anger and resentment want to boil over. There is no rhyme or reason to our situation. I would think a guy paralyzed in prison would undoubtedly muse upon the direction his life has taken. To keep him in prison, I assume the government would have to hire a 24/7 attendant. Unbelievably expensive. Eliminating the vengeance factor, I see no real reason to keep him in jail. The answers lie in a world beyond this one. I do know that I possess a lot more ignorance than knowledge. All I know is -- life is not fair. Never has been; never will be. God bless to all my quad buds.
Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: [email protected] > From: "John S." <[email protected]> > Date: November 27, 2012, 4:50:14 PM EST > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Quadriplegic released from prison > Reply-To: "John S." <[email protected]> > > Is that what we are? Doing life in the electric chair? What was your crime? > Could't they at least tattoo "RAPIST & MURDERER" on their face so people know > they weren't the victim of a trajjic accident. > How the hell do you get 24/7 attendant care? > > BW, > john > From: Larry Willis <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 9:13 AM > Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Quadriplegic released from prison > > I think it is safe to say that he is now in a prison far more secure than any > bars could provide. Let him go. Why spend $650,000 to imprison a man who is > already imprisoned. > > Sent from my iPad > > Begin forwarded message: > >> Resent-From: [email protected] >> From: [email protected] >> Date: November 23, 2012, 8:31:45 AM EST >> To: [email protected], [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Quadriplegic released from prison >> >> As John Callahan once jokingly put it, "Don't Worry, He Won't Git Fir" >> Is he a danger to society? Is his present health condition enough >> punishment? And just how long will it take his Mother, before she realizes >> that she can't take care of him 24 hours a day 7 days a week, without help? >> >> Best Wishes >> >> In a message dated 11/23/2012 2:16:02 A.M. Central Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> Have any of you guys heard about the man convicted of rape and murder and >> was sentenced to 150 yrs Then six years into the sentence, another inmate >> stabbed him in the neck which resulted in him being a quad. Im not sure how >> many years he was in jail after he became disabled, but it was at a cost of >> 650,000 dollars a year to take care of him. The inmates mother agreed to >> take care of him upon his release and thats exactly what the state did, let >> him go. What do you guys think? Should he be allowed to live among the >> public? should the state pay the cost of attendent care because he was hurt >> on their watch? >> >> ron c7 > >
