Mary Gay Scanlon: “After not being in session for so long, one week has got everyone ready to go home.”

Why are we jailing, essentially, people who are not a danger to our communities, who are in many cases contributing members to our economy and our communities, folks who are employed and are paying taxes? Why are these folks being put in a…

This is not supposed to be punitive, but it’s pretty hard to say that this is anything but.

We all enjoy the extra hour or so of sunlight in the summer, but when people are considering this, they need to consider the extra hours of darkness in the winter.

So we have the situation where people are being jailed and then forced to work essentially for free to maintain basic sanitation, food, etc.