Posted On: December 29, 2008, 5:00 pm CST

Posted By: Ann Parkey

This is another example of "criminals" having rights to waste taxpayers' money for financial gain.

Dealing with the system during a civil fraud suit inspired me to get a degree in criminal justice with the possibility of a career in fraud investigation.

Look out Pitts, Kings, Brookshires, and all the other sorry citizens who try to take from others illegally. What goes around comes around, and you will get yours.

Our textbook cited a frivilous lawsuit filed by an inmate. This inmate pretended to believe he could get pregnant by having sex with a homosexual. He was suing because the doctor wouldn't give him birth control pills.

"Only about 2,000 petitions were filed per year in the courts concerning inmate problems (1961). By 1975 that number had risen to approximately 17,000; and in 1996 prisoners filed 68,235 civil rights lawsuits in federal courts nationwide."

Laurie Asseo, "Inmate Lawsuits," Associated Press wire service, May 24, 1996; and Bureau of Justice Stastics, "State and Federal Prisoners Filed 68,235 Petitions in U.S. Courts in 1996," press release, October 29, 1997.

Other petitions were filed because an inmate got only one roll with his dinner; another because he didn't get a luncheon salad; and a third time because prison- provided TV dinners didn't come with a drink (Schmalleger, 2007).

Law-abiding citizens need to speak out about such ridiculous actions.

What do any of you think you could do legally to publicize this attempt to "get rich quick".

Restorative justice in Australia has a good idea that SHAMING offenders produces positive results. We have freedom of speech! Research the law, and legally show the preacher and the Pitts what others think of their greed and alleged dishonesty!