THE Goal of this site is:
To bring awareness to Ohio’s other “ Death Penalty”’
and the negative effects it is having on the state’s revenue and families, while all 50 states of U.S. hand down life sentences for serious crimes, Ohio is one of the few that also prohibits good behavior sentence reduction for “Lifers”.
This anti-second chance policy opens up two large areas for our state to be over-harvested.
The first clearly seen area is the burden it places on Ohio’s budget.
With so many underdeveloped teens, committing serious crimes every day, our state’s prison population will continue to bulge and stand ridiculously close to the giant states of California and Texas.
The second area is not so visible, but many of the pain driven kids from broken homes that receive a Life Sentence in Ohio, have been refined by the hardship and reflection time of incarceration.
Greatly humbled these once destructive boys have matured into responsible and often compassionate men, men who if dispersed back to their communities would help turn the tide there with troubled youth.
We can do better than opening tax-dollars on keeping 1st- time offenders, who have established long term good behavior, permanently suspended from society.
Therefore, whether you are a concerned taxpayer who likes to follow their buck or a humanitarian with a voice to lend, this is a ground floor where we can all gather under one mutually beneficial cause.
Regardless of what state you live in this issue could use your voice, for it is not just revenue but human potential that is being wasted.
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