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When I read "Compassionate Release" I thought the story was about something else...

If she is released, are we taxpayers relieved of having to pay any of her medical bills? If so. Turn her loose!

The compassionate release of Mrs. Malone would actually be compassion for the taxpayers, since she has had serious health problems and the government will have to pay her enormous medical bills while she is in the slammer. For that reason alone, she should get off with time served and not be incarcerated.

The whole matter involving Mrs. Malone is a transparent mechanism set up by her late husband. She was likely told she would be the recipient since he was still in the legislature at the time. I doubt she had any more than passive involvement at the worst. Everyone who knew or knew of Representative Malone knows he was wide open to this kind of $cheme for most of his long tenure.

I'd say let her slide and move on.

Judge Wingate. Compassionate release? Not a chance.

"....has not had time to" round up documents. That's the role of this high paid attorney's clerical/support staff.

If I had a vote it would be to enforce the report date, incarcerate the criminal and let the chips fall. If, later, DOC contracted medical staff determine she should be released under house arrest, work with that when and if it occurs. She needs to feel the sting of justice just as anybody else would, notwithstanding her upper-class status, high notoriety and fondness for liquid spirits (which may be unavailable to her in a jail cell.

"When I read "Compassionate Release" I thought the story was about something else..."

Should we invite Ophelia to work with you on that one?

I experienced a compassionate release once in Tijuana. It cost me $25 but it was worth every penny.

Is she currently in MDOC custody?

Or is she still playing stay outtta jail?

BONUS ASK: HOW MANY DAYS HAS SHE SPENT IN CUSTODY?

I expect Judge Wingate to rule in her motion sometime in 2022.

12:10 PM --

"She needs to feel the sting of justice just as anybody else would, notwithstanding her upper-class status, high notoriety and fondness for liquid spirits"

Seriously.

The Malones were a long way down from upper class, even in Mississippi. High notoriety? Yes, if you mean the wife of a 3rd tier legislator in the minority party of one house. That is something to brag about...

Slap her hand and be done with it. Give her a break. There is a good chance that Bennett kept her in the dark about the kickbacks.

I don't feel sorry for the old bag and 41 months is 3 years, not a lifetime. You reap what you sow when you make poor choices. She is just trying to play every last hand she has to stay out of the slammer. Wingate will wipe his ass with it.

Rich folk. SMH.

@12:23 - you must’ve gone to one of the fancier places in TJ, color me jealous!

i am trying to figure out what all this bs accomplished. would one of you fill me in? do you really think govt officials stopped getting kick backs after this? do you really think every govt contract that is handed out there is not something similar going on? smdh

@11:08 she didn't incur those medical expenses while incarcerated so I don't see why we as taxpayers would have to foot the bill for any medical expenses after she is put into prison. However, I could be wrong.

@4:01 yes you are very wrong. We will be paying every dime of it, and rest assured they will give great care because they are now 100% liable for her.

Malone was part of the ruling party for decades and she never left his side, no matter where he was. That you suggest she might have been 'in the dark' is mighty damned funny.

From what I understand 6:59 is correct. Rumor was she pulled the strings and he did the dance

At least pretend there is one justice system for everyone and make this woman serve her time.

@5:19 Thank you, that's a topic I'm not familiar with. But now I know.

She was the brains behind Bennett!

If she is not in custody, the state would probably be paying a large part of her medical bills via Medicaid. What's the difference, other than the federal share of Medicaid?

She was the brains and the braun behind this scheme - Bennett (who was in the minority party only one term; was in the majority for most of his career, thus his chairmanship that allowed this scheme to foster and grow). She was also the one lobbying to keep Bennett from having an opponent in 2017, promising his vote against McCoy in 2007. Which of course turned out to be a pure lie but nothing surprising from her.

She did the crime - and more. This is just the one she got caught at. I don't care if we do have to pay additional medical bills - the idea that she deserves to walk without penalty like her husband did (who died before he could be convicted) is bogus. Her entitlement belief matches that of both their belief that they were entitled to whatever emoluants they could garner through MDOC, including the kickbacks from the Walnut Grove prison that they treated as their private piggy bank.

Send her to jail. 41 months is a short time to enjoy those quarters. And she earned every bit of it.

It’s true injustice to let someone like that deteriorate in prison. She didn’t harm anyone. She shouldn’t have to die there from the consequences of her late husband. We will never know the facts. He’s gone. Wingate needs to let this woman go and live. Certainly on probation, but at this point in her life, it isn’t fair. People who do worse do not even get the death sentence, or even the time she got. It’s a sad justice system, if this is what they call justice.

5:19 - NO, YOU are wrong. She is not in the custody of DOC and is free until she reports. Therefore no bills she might have incurred to date are the responsibility of the state.

9:37...Puleeze. That's like saying Bernie Ebbers 'didn't harm anyone'. He nor she knee-capped or shot anybody (that we know of), but each of them robbed, stole money and caused suffering, not to mention violating state and federal law. A slap on her silk panties is not what we expect and deserve from our system of justice.

Yes, and folks in hell want ice water; they don’t get it and neither should she!

@2:54 (and all the others talking about the STATE paying for her illness), of course she isn't in MDOC custody because it was a FEDERAL crime. She's in BOP custody at an inmate hospital in Texas. Simple search turned that up. And she was the brains and the muscle in her relationship with Bennett.

Let me see if have this straight. This woman is seeking to avoid prison on a plea for compassion, based on her need for medical care, after she was sentenced to prison for public corruption involving the company that was responsible for monitoring the medical care provided within that very prison system. Did I get that right?

Are we paying for botox shots at that BOP facility?

Let me see if have this straight. This woman is seeking to avoid prison on a plea for compassion, based on her need for medical care, after she was sentenced to prison for public corruption involving the company that was responsible for monitoring the medical care provided within that very prison system. Did I get that right?

Close but the little detail where she was indicted by the feds ultimately leads to a sentence to be served with the feds rather than with the MDOC.

Fact of the matter is that this happens every single day... within all parts of the government. She shouldn’t be given a death sentence when the majority of people doing this will never get caught.. cough cough.. gov candidate.