Real-Life Stories of Prison Reform | Judge Frederic Block

[@StephenHarris-j2z]

"Oh, the humanity". The shame of our current prison system! Thank you for sharing your incites and wishing you continued work for reform💪❤️

[@DannyHustle]

I just bought the Judge’s audiobook. He’s my kind of guy. 👍 Great stuff Ryan.

[@John-ct5op]

I wanted to point out some misinformation at 5:49 by Judge Block. There are not 140,000,000 lawyers in the US, instead the figure is 1.3M.

[@Dillonmac96]

lol he’s saying crazy numbers he said 20 percent of our population is in prison… I think he’s just so old that he is used to imposing his will and intelligence by using statistics that are fake anyways but now he’s just unable to recall basic math… everybody knows how many people are in America or ur not smart st all… to say that high a number is insane.. I pray he’s not still making decisions on people’s life and I pray even more that he is just old and he wasn’t always full of shit and just getting away with it lol… perfect person for a judge tho a fool

[@aaronwimberleymbamsf5776]

Great meditation to start the day & also an even better way to re-prioritize what's on the daily docket. This interview also espouses the importance of healthy and wholesome deliberation before decisions and why it is such a vital virtue in today's "Spaghetti Western|Kabuki Theatre" culture of shoot first and ask questions later. One must ask of all of the infinite directions that "Pre-meditatio Malorum" can run in order to weed out those unsavory actions. As globally rooted cosmopolitans it is our daily work to de-risk those things that cause the largest amount of people harm under the guise & guile of our own self reflective hippocratic oath- this is the only thing that can separate and distinguish between the smoke and mirrors that we face daily to find the ethical thin red string that is in all things that benefits the most amount of people. Even in economics the example of the bad movie is tied to the definition of "sunk cost" and the real losers of value are those that stay to watch a bad movie through to the ending.

[@Lee86THUNDER]

A little off topic but i always wondered if a start up in manufacturing could ever happen where they place inmates on a job of some sort for cheap labor that is needed in the US. Incentivise good work and behavior with early release to inmates who are looking at eventual release. They make extra cash to save or buy things on the inside. Inmates can learn skills that may get them employed elsewhere once released. Tax payers might not have to flip so much money to prisons and citizens get a cheaper product while industry can do well and some higher up is still making their profits. If ran well its a win win win. I can also see the program exploited where more inmates and longer sentences become rewarded. The bureaucrats would def help do that the way things are run nowadays.

[@KevinWilliandmy]

I love you brother

[@no_one514]

2:48pm 12-5-24 THUR

[@chillsahoy2640]

One of the things I sometimes think about is the pull between following the rule of law and following the cardinal virtue of justice, in the context of unjust laws, where these two pulls might be opposed. In the example of Rusticus, you say that as a judge he was limited by the law and had to prosecute Justin. Where does his duty to his principles end and the duty to his job start? In my opinion if a law is unjust (in this case, the crime is being of a different faith but otherwise doing no harm), then upholding that law is a betrayal of the more fundamental duty to a fellow human being. I don't know whether he had any wiggle room, an option to abdicate from his position as judge or at least use the threat of quitting as leverage to be allowed to make a different choice. Admittedly, I'm coming at this with a 21st century perspective and I don't know whether this is how a 2nd century Roman would have approached the dilemma.

[@AashaAgarwal-sr9lw]

Yo ryan wht up my homie 😂😂

[@Dillonmac96]

Ya 1/4 people is a lawyer we’re all rich… lol I hope he’s old and not just full of shit able to get away with it pre internet, so many ppl like that slowly falling apart

[@matthewsosteezy5904]

I think they just misspoke tbh