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[Demosthenes]

• Texas Couple Charged with Multicounts of Tax Fraud
Reported by: Newsroom Solutions

Thursday, Jul 17, 2008 @07:55pm CST

(Beaumont, TX) A Vidor couple has been charged with multiple counts of tax evasion and failure to file a tax return in the Eastern District of Texas.
64-year old Thomas B. Parker and his wife, 65-year old Margaret were arrested Wednesday. The Parkers were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with 7 counts of tax evasion and 5 counts of failure to file a tax return.
According to the indictment, the Parkers filed amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns for 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 in which they showed they had no taxable income and they owed no taxes. They also allegedly failed to file tax returns for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
If convicted, the tax evasion counts each carry a maximum sentence of up to three years in federal prison and a $100,000 fine. The failure to file charges each carry a maximum sentence of up to one year in federal prison and a $25,000 fine.

[OnceSane]

At one time, the California facility at Tahachapi was used for housing older inmates. However, I believe that with all of the mandatory sentencing laws, that facility has had to change it's population.
I frankly can see a possibility of a State beginning a release program for prisoners over a certain age (70?) and effectively dumping them back on society. The feeling would be that they would be too old to be dangerous, and too needing of services for the prisons to continue to provide. By putting them out of prison, the burden of their care will fall on their families or on themselves. If they are elderly, homeless, have no financial resources, the State would be tacitly relying on Nature to eliminate the problems.
Not nice, but perhaps politically expedient.

[Lambkin]

So OnceSane, you agree with Homer Simpson, who once said, "No boy, the elderly shouldn't be warehoused, they should be studied to see what nutrients can be extracted from them."

I don't think we should introduce meat from brain-diseased or "downer" organisms into the school lunch program. That pretty well rules out beneficial reuse of tax protesters unless we can make biodesel out of them.

Also, for those who are long time inmates, what is to prevent them from committing a new felony, just so thay can go back to prison? Or violate a state's 3 Strike Laws, so they get to go back to prison for a long time?

Yet another reason to not have 3-strikes laws: a 70 year old offender who may have taken a lifetime to reach 3 strikes will be chained to the public teat til death.