by Matthew Bransgrove | Nov 30, 2015 | Crime
I have honestly been getting my act together, because I truly want to be that loving husband to my wife and that good father/role model to my children. I swear to you that I WILL NOT let you down. Let my wife or children down. Let my family down. Let society down....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 15, 2015 | Crime
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 15, 2015 | Crime
If prisons are simply places for criminals to wait out their sentence, if prisoners are allowed to behave like thugs, or are treated like animals, they will come out worse than when they went in. The purpose of prison is to punish and reform. To be reformed, they must...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 15, 2015 | Crime
An important part of reforming a criminal’s character is to ensure that he makes amends for his violation of the rights of others. Moreover it is incumbent on the government to ensure that the victims of crime are compensated. To address both requirements, victims of...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 15, 2015 | Crime
Prisoners who will one day be released into society need to be reformed, not further depraved, by their incarceration. As a rule, felons should not be released until they are as statistically unlikely to commit crime as a law-abiding citizen, of like age and sex, is...
