Prison > Homelessness
A Pennsylvania man has made an unusual request: He wants to be given the maximum sentence after pleading guilty to giving a false name to police. This is after the prosecutor dropped the failure to register charge because he didn’t have a “domicile” as he was homeless. This is what it has come to.
Lareau J. Laube, 55, told Judge Stephen G. Baratta today he wanted the maximum sentence of a year in prison for giving police a false name. Baratta said Laube was one of the most unusual defendants with whom he’d ever dealt. He asked Baratta to impose the maximum penalty because he didn’t want to be released.
The judge sentenced Laube to six to 12 months and ordered that Laube be furloughed. However, he said county probation officials are to prepare a plan to assure Laube has a place to go. He asked Laube why he had been sleeping at the library.
“I didn’t have a place,” Laube said. “I’m homeless.”
Baratta said of state prison officials: “They dumped him out. There’s no social net anywhere to catch him.”
Yep. Score one for safety.
Oh Gideon, isn’t it funny how you decried the hysteria after the Petit murders because people were reacting to one case, but now you toss out an anecdote about some pathetic old man who cannot find a place to live to show how the syatem is not keeping us safe.
Yes. It fits in the theme of this blog. I’m not sure what you’re expecting here.
Intellectual consistency, that’s all.
I’m not going to explain the common theme in both sets of stories. I think it’s pretty obvious to readers of this blog.