Released: Not so Fast!

 

Jimmy Rolan

Yesterday, while at work, there was a man peering at me through my coworker's partition. He looked just like the man that raped me 35-years ago. I thought to myself, "What's going on?" They usually do that kind of fear-mongering when what I say or do is some sort of threat. I was at work, and what could I possibly be doing to disrupt their prostitution racket. When I got home, I turned on the news first thing, and there it was. A man who had shot another man eight times had been released and the charges dropped on his Attempted-Murder and Firearm charge. I sat on my couch and giggled to myself. I had been to jail four other times and had seen worse cases and dangerous people go free, after selling themselves in the jail's clinic. This time, however, Jessica Cooper or David Gorcyca isn't in charge of the Prosecutor's Office. There is a new Sheriff in town, pun intended, and Karen McDonald's lynch-men aren't letting dangerous criminals walk free. There had been a manhunt soon after he was released, charges reinstated and he was recaptured in less than 24-hours. My giggle turned into a full-blown chuckle. I hate to say it, but I told you so!

When I was in jail, there was a woman there named Starr. Starr had killed a man. Not on purpose, but while shooting him up with heroin. He was her friend, and she had no idea the fix in the needle was too potent for him and he overdosed and died right in front of her. She was arrested and brought to jail because that is a crime. Many want to change that law, but it is still a fact. In 2010, it was more of a fact than it is today. Many courts with the opioid epidemic have become lenient, but in 2010, it was some kind of murder. It probably wasn't what they made it seem like to Starr because she had started to blossom. She was no longer the heroin-addicted inmate with sunken cheeks and face sores. She was eating and her daily food intake had her filling out in all the right places. She was suddenly attractive and still able and willing to make their money. She had blond hair and green eyes and a butt like a black girl, with thick legs and a smile that could kill. When people like Starr came in she was the talk of the jail. Many of the women envied her, because her kind of looks got her not only a spot in the Trustee pod, but Hot Food, twice a week and all the commissary she could eat. She brought my breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I was fascinated by her popularity and her ability to brush it off. Then I discover her case and knew her sadness inside. No matter how much food and attention she got, her friend was still dead.

She had shown me her wristband with her original photo, and it was a different person. The woman in front of me was a true star. The woman on her wrist was a drug addict of the worst kind. She said she looked at it every day as a reminder of how far she had come. That's where she had lost me because she really hadn't come that far. She had only come as far as jail/ They had decided not to give her drugs because they still get high in jail. It was more beneficial to keep Starr sober. She didn't equate her sober living to being locked up. She felt she was in the real world, but I knew it was a world created by a false narrative of prostitution. Many of the women had never been treated so well. As long as they did what was required of them they lived a good existence. Once they stepped out of bound there easy living ceased. Starr ended up in prison for six years. At least that's what the women had said. I hope she spent that time getting better for real. 

Julie Nicholson

The man that they let go of yesterday, had an entire month to get comfortable in the fallacy that he was going free. He is a very handsome man. Almost looks like a woman. The deputies will give a prostitute the feeling of euphoria to keep them making them money. This man shot another man eight times. His intent was to kill. A man like that should never go free, at least not without punishment. There is no doubt in my mind that the guy is a prostitute, If he isn't going free, they will try to get him a lighter sentence. He had been locked up a month, and they thought everyone had forgotten about him. That's why I say, we can't ever let go of these horrific crimes. Those deputies look to detectives to get so caught up in the work that they leave prosecution to the administration. One young woman had asked me why her detective comes to every one of her hearings. I simply told her, "He wants to see you get what's coming to you."  She had robbed three people in one night at gunpoint. She needed to go to prison for some period of time. She had disappeared every morning, too. She claimed she was going to court every morning. Right...

The judge who can't comment. Well, who won't comment is a pimping judge. They control them not only in the circuit court but the district courts, too. She did what she was told to do. The last time something like this happened, a woman and her two children were murdered. Things like this never happen in "normal" conditions. There is a tearing apart of justice in Oakland county. It was evident to me when Tucker Cipriano got out of Oakland County Jail four months early and tried to kill his entire family with a baseball bat. He succeeded on two counts and left his father disabled for life. This is the Oakland County I know. I saw yesterday that it will slowly become the Oakland County of the past. I pray that Karen McDonald can catch every one of these instances. I know I'm here for it. People who endanger our society should not be allowed to walk free. At the same time a young woman who commits petty crimes should not be locked up and forced to sell herself to get home. It's Christmas money time. Those deputies are looking to fill the jail with inmates willing to work off crimes to get the deputy's child a bike. We need to start saying, "Enough!"