I dunno what the big deal is about - John Sachs got out for his daughter’s wedding, and who knows how many people he’s killed or had killed.
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Prisoners in Ireland are often allowed out to go to funerals. Surely you have something similar?
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We send inmates out to specialists when their needs can’t be met in the prison. This includes certain dental and oral surgery procedures, heart catheterizations, colonoscopies, misc. surgeries, etc.
The prison health facilities are usually not much more complex than your local doctor’s or dentist’s office. It is much more cost-effective to send inmates out under guard for procedures than it is to try to staff and maintain a surgical clinic inside the prison.
No surprise from me here.
If it wouldn’t have been paid for by the state, it shouldn’t be allowed. You are supposed to lose privileges when you are put in jail.
So you know as a fact that Spector didn’t need some sort of specialized dental care?
Yeah, but a funeral is normally a one-time event whereas an anniversary happens on an annual basis.
I believe Bryan is riffing on the oft-quoted line Is it safe?, said repeatedly by Christian Szell in Marathon Man while dentally torturing Thomas “Babe” Levy to extract information (rather than teeth).
This is, like, the worst pitting ever. Unless Spector was at liberty for a week or something in order to see his dentist, what’s the big friggin’ deal?
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Aha!
I’m on somebody’s ignore list.
Looks like he has to make do with the prison barber, though.
I read your post and still didn’t get it. :o
Apropos of nothing, I once had a guy on my caseload escape from custody on a trip to the dentist. Went right out the window when the hygienist stepped out for a second. The guys who were supposed to be guarding him were sitting on their asses in the lobby reading magazines.
Probably looking for the one-armed man.
Tell me you rallied your team with a cutting speech like, “What I want from each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.”
Stranger
That’s the way it has been, is, and will presumably be forever. People with money (like Rand Roverfucker - whatever happened to that troll?) are just better than you and me. Time to accept it.
-Joe
BFD. The UNC Healthcare System sees hundreds of prisoners a year when they need a level of care not offered at the facility they’re housed in. Outside wealth has nothing to do with it, but if the prisoner can foot the bill, let 'em. CA needs every dime it can get.
He got a papercut in the mailroom of the law firm where he worked, and tried to sue one of the partners over it, claiming gross negligence. He acted as his own lawyer, and screwed up the case so badly that the judge ended up sentencing him (as the plaintif!) to 80 years in prison.
I’d be less angry, but I don’t see why that puff-haired ass should get to call in a fancy specialist for something like (what I assume) is routine dental work. Then again considering how biased the California criminal justice system is towards famous slimeballs I can’t say I’m at all surprised by this.
It occurs to me that Phil Spector probably isn’t much of a flight risk…
That’s not the point, though. It’s preferential treatment for a celebrity that I’m objecting to.
D’you think they’d let some anonymous member of the Crips convicted of a drive-by shooting to go out for a private dental appointment? Even if he could cough up the money to reimburse the state?
Like hell they would.
Yes, they would, if they thought he wasn’t a flight risk while going to the dentist.
He didn’t get a trip to Disneyland. He got a trip to the dentist. In the company of a CO, driven there in the back of a prison van. And then he went right back to his cell. And the taxpayers saved $X.
What’s the big deal?
those prison dentists are hell on my veneers.