Kim Cold...

[John Doe Jr]

The Mason County Sheriff's Department releases an inmate in nothing more than his boxer shorts in 19 degree temperature. The family brought clothes for their family member to wear upon exiting jail however the sheriff department refused them the right to give him clothes so he could properly leave the jail. How appalling and disgusting and disgraceful is this Mason County Sheriff Department under the direction of Kim cold?

[Willy]

I disagree John. It wasn't his mother's job to get him out and move him on to treatment. It was his job. We're not talking about a little boy who got in trouble at school and his mother had to go and fetch him out of the principals office. Another thing, I didn't  know these people or anything about them, but now I and hundreds of others know about her and her family. I would never have put my family out there on social media especially when someone in the family has been arrested and imprisoned. I'm not surprised at how the Sheriff runs his jail, he has a reputation. But this women just couldn't keep her private life private and in my opinion embarrassed her son and her entire family.

[AQUAMAN]

Good loving and caring mothers don't do for their son because it's not required, they do it as instinct and high morals. She wants her son to get well, and will do whatever it takes to help, no matter what anyone else thinks or believes in. Now that's a real mother, not like some out there. Maybe now he hopefully can heal, and recover. Rehabilitation isn't something that's just at a rehab center either, it's a change in attitude, and life going forward. I think the LE system has forgotten that entirely nowadays. Once a criminal, always a criminal, is the prevailing attitude, and that simply needs overhauling all around.

[John Doe Jr]

I believe as part of ReHab these days you need "Sponsors" to participate. That includes Family, Friends, and even your Boss from work. Yes' It involves everyone around him and his ReHab specialist will talk to all parties at all times during his recovery. These people have to agree to take time from their lives to work with ReHab on his behalf. He can't do it alone.  I understand the personal responsibility you speak of and I don't disagree at all with your thinking but, that is not how the program works. He has to make a conscious choice toward his own recovery under the support of the program I described, And, He has agreed to do that. His part is agreeing to go and, working through the program successfully. The Mother didn't have to go pick him up but, it is Her son and, she is supporting him as a Mother and supporting him in his addiction recovery. And, that speaks volumes of her in my opinion. The Mother is more embarrassed for the media and how they portrayed her insight to her son not being able to dress before walking outside.She cares about others. She was merely documenting his journey no matter how ridiculous it ended up being. The fact is she has accepted his wrongdoings and aims to make him whole again, with or without the Public's help.This case is not unlike any other case we all see day to day. Many have dark pasts, criminal pasts,abuse,mental history, and other problems. The first step in any recovery is the awareness that there is a problem. Then, let go of denial and have a to a willingness to make a change. That is His commitment now.

[stump]

Yes as Aquaman stated a mother should be there for her family, to bad she missed the boat earlier in his life. To put her family out there on social media for all to know about is in my opinion a little over the top. But with that being said, they have to live with it, I don't.  When I was growing up my dad instilled in me "DON"T EVER EMBARRASS US" , That meant MOM and DAD and our name . 

[AQUAMAN]

Of course stump, that is what all our families in the 50's -70's instilled on us all as kids. And we obeyed, as best we could. Some still didn't obey the best, that's life. We must ALL TRY to be the best we can be, and that isn't that easy for some, so, we either forgive and rehab them, or we portray them as totally lost, and never forgive them. It's simply a forgone conclusion to make everyone a loser and never forgive, and that isn't close to being Christian, if in fact you have that conviction. The LAW says we have that Conviction, to rehabilitate to normalcy and legal actions after serving for our debts. BUT, is that the way LE acts nowadays? If so, why this entire episode to begin with? Ask yourselves, and ask COLE, WHY NOW? And also ask why 600 cops are watching this thread now, cause they are also guilty, or can they finally change their own behavior?

[Willy]

Thank goodness for this guys mother. She single handily saved all of the future criminals who will be picked up naked and would have been released the same way. By making this public I now find at least 4 news outlets that have carried this story. One of those news stories states that this prisoner is 29 years old. And his Mom is picking him up from jail? I can think of dozens of worthwhile causes that she could have brought to the public's attention but her crusade to save naked prisoners has got to be right  at the top of everyone's list. How often do the police pick up naked criminals anyway? As far as I'm concerned this is a non story and borders on idiocy. The only reason I'm commenting is because this entire situation  is so ludicrous. Let's all join together to help save our naked criminals.

[XLFD]

I want to thank the regular membership for conducting a good and respectful conversation about this issue, it shows that even though we agree on many things, when we disagree we can do so gracefully and without devolution of decorum.  And I'm attributing that to the virtues and sincerity of our members, not to their fear of Ludington's police department launching an investigation into whether the passion of somebody's argument could make an official uneasy.

That being said, I think the difficulty in situations like this is that we're used to having a clear 'hero' and a 'villain' in a story with two sides to it.  Nick earned his spot in the jail through his illegal actions and addiction, his mother wasn't as upfront as she could have been about the scenario she portrayed.  Conversely, the jail ran by Sheriff Cole and company had bad policy in place they weren't going to change without something like this happening, they then release an edited audio-video combination whose singular goal seems to be to attack the veracity of the mother, not to show what actually happened over the course of that inmate's release from their angle.  Both sides have 'villainous' aspects to them, and little 'virtue' in this case.  Unless you're predisposed to see police as heroes regardless of their actions or conversely see prisoners as victims regardless of their actions.

I am disposed to see Nick as somebody who has served their time (in jail) and is now in a treatment program ordered by the court, who through no fault of his own, or his mother, was sent out into the cold without proper attire or shoes because of a policy made by the rehabilitative facility he has been in for several months, and not because his loving mother, who has been there for him despite his transgressions, wasn't able to provide them.  

I can't help but admit several prejudices I have against the sheriff's office and their past misdeeds and awkward counterpunches afterwards regarding their disposition of other cases, but the only thing I can see in their favor in this instance was that they chose to revise their policy after Nick's mother put her neck out.  I hope they respond to my FOIA request for supplemental information, but highly doubt it since they chose to withhold a traffic accident report from the public for over a year, and had to be taken to court to do so.

[Willy]

In my opinion neither side of this issue are blameless and that's why I call this a non issue. We all know the Sheriff has had some credibility issues but we also know that MOM has her own. I'm not a fan of local LE but I'm sure not pleased with how MOM set up this scenario. I hope MOM realizes that her son's criminal behavior is now permanently spread out over the internet and can never be retracted. Besides our 2 local and very biased news agencies who ran the story there are 2 out state news agencies that covered this fiasco. Who knows where the truth lay. MOM can take solace in the fact that any future grandchildren her son may give her will be able to find out what dad did by just checking out the internet.

http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/nation-now/man-released-from-mich-jai...

http://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/sheriff-s-office...

http://woodtv.com/2018/02/02/michigan-jail-releases-man-in-frigid-w...

http://www.masoncountypress.com/2018/02/02/mason_county_jail_inmate/

[XLFD]

Presuming he does nothing else that's notorious, Nick's posterity would have already had those reminders on the internet of the illegal stuff Nick did last year, his trial and his sentencing.  Nick just might take some pride in that he and 'grandma' changed a policy that needed tweaking; the biased audio-video releases and news coverage speaks for itself.  His future children might take some pride too if Nick gets his act together and becomes a great dad, and ergo annoys all those so willing in our community to give up on him.

I noticed this article about Hope not Handcuffs, which effectively has drug addicts go to police in order to get themselves treatment for their addiction in SE Michigan before they let their life spin out of control or die.   I don't know whether it's as effective as portrayed and I don't know whether Barnett or Cole would honor the system without gaming it, but it's worth looking at.