VIDUAL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aVyZbLpMZM   

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Early Parole 

Initially, the visual argument I committed to really had nothing to do with the reality of early parole, it was just a joke I made up featuring a child eating spaghetti.  After taking consideration into the seriousness of early parole, I decided to take a different route.  The picture is a newspaper cartoon facing the reality that many people, including myself, have lost their confidence with our parole board.  The picture is the board discussing as to why we may have lost our confidence in them.  One of the board members is a clown, summing of the idea of our parole boards across the U.S. being a complete joke.  Perhaps the board wouldn't be looked upon this way if they really researched the criminals that were up for parole.  Many of our prisoners whom were granted parole have committed back into the life of crime.  Just recently, another Philadelphia police officer was killed because of a prisoner whom had 20 charges of crime tattooed to him and our board still decided to let him be back apart of society.  I think that the picture is a witty approach on the viewing we have of these parole boards, and i feel that the cartoon gets the point across very well.

The video I chose to use as my video argument is a positive look on the parole board realizing a mistake they had made and used their power to issue another warrant to have this murderer put back into prison for two more years. The video is courtesy of NBC news of Sacramento, California.  It's not very often that you hear of such a thing happening, and it was good to find out when this video was brought to my attention.  After looking over countless articles of the parole board constantly making errors, it was good to see that they aren't as bad as we make them out to be.  Sara Olsen was imprisoned for bomb threats on police cars and for 2nd degree murder.  She served half of her term and then was up for parole.  As usual, the parole board granted the parole for our criminal serving half of her term.  It wasn't until 5 days later that they realized that Sara still had to serve an additional 2 years.  They labeled the mistake as a "calculation error".  This is the problem I have with our system.  I don't understand why these mistakes are constantly being made.  It's their job to look into every person's background before making a decision.  It seems as if they never really look fully into these prisoners up for parole.  Sara was hiding in Minnesota for 3 decades.  If I were on a board and saw that the person who was up for parole was hiding from officials for 30 years, I'd never let this person out from behind the bars.  It's obvious that our prisoner knew she was in the wrong and our system still lets her go?  I find that to be pathetic.  I'm glad to see they re-did their wrong though.