It’s Christmas Eve, a hungry and cold man that has fallen on hard times, unemployed, no where to go, homeless. Did anyone help him? No. Instead he went and forced open the front door of a dry cleaners at 8:30 a.m. Two employees heard the locked door open, then found Mr. Frickel taking coins from the cash register. One of the employees held Mr.Frickel while the other called police. Mr. Frickel had taken about $9.30. He told officers he was hungry and wanted to get a hotel room for the night.
Robert Oren Frickel was sentenced Tuesday June 5th, 2012 by District Judge Gregory Todd for felony burglary. Frickel previously admitted to the charge for the Dec. 24 incident at Wetzels Quality Cleaners on North 30th Street.
The Department of Corrections will determine how Mr. Frickel will serve his sentence. He was still listed on the Yellowstone County jail roster Wednesday morning June 6th, 2012.
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- Well Montana, I think we out did Ebenezer Scrooge in the classic “A Christmas Carol.” District Judge Gregory Todd did somewhat better instead of placing him in a center where he could pay back that debt of $9.30 he is sentencing him to prison where he can have a roof over his head with 3 square meals a day, yes, with losing his freedom. It will just cost us the taxpayer roughly around $35,000 per year for 5 years. We are being sentenced along with him but at a higher cost. I guess Ebenezer Scrooge found a way around this one….get him off the streets, make $175,000.00 off of $9.30, win/win situation for Ebenezer Scrooge. This is what Montana officials have been doing and we have been going along with it, all the while being suckered. Montana did you realize this is what you are paying for with Prisons For Profit? They are taking situations and creating them in a way where they can make money all the while giving you a song and a dance telling you that they are keeping you safe. That is money that should be going to your family, not a corrupted system. Read this website, see the documentation that is from the state of Montana. Not saying that this man was not in the wrong, he was. Not saying that he should not be held accountable, he should. But don’t you think the system could have come up with something different? Restorative justice costs far less, we need justice reform. How many more are there of these sitting behind bars stealing your money through the system, where those higher up officials get to live high on the hog? Stop and think for a minute. How many cases have you heard on the news or read in the newspapers where a defendant actually “won” a case? How many instead hear or read they said “plead guilty” through a plea bargain? How many instead have you heard have been found “guilty.” Or, because the defendant is someone with money, status in the community or state “no charges” are brought against them? If charges are brought against them they “work something out.” Montana what are you going to do come election time? Research your candidates, see where they have stood…..see how bad Montana is looking to the rest of the country. It’s all you hear about. We cannot hide our heads in the sand any longer. I want to be a proud Montanan…..how about you?
wondering what the actual cost per day of housing an inmate is…I know from a justice hospital facility, several years ago now, the figure was given as a couple of hundred dollars a day, and that is in quite a grim environment, not five star, and extremely basic diet. That figure also covered medical staffing costs plus corrections staff from the state justice budget.
They house inmates here way cheaper than that…it was stated the amount in the last post by both the private and the state prison. The state prison costs $94.19 a day. The private prison costs $63.98 a day.The higher rate for the state is because MSP functions, to a great extent, as a special-needs facility in the Montana prison network. So actually as you can see that is why they don’t receive the medical care that some of them actually need and they yank them off their medications, they are taking everything away from them. But at the same time you guys must have nicer facilities over there. The private prisons are the worst, they let those men completely suffer. As you can tell by all the riots they are having and all the media coverage about them. Yet, CCA wants to buy out 48 states of our prisons. It will be concentration camps.
Yes, definitely some strange logic involved in the decision to house someone for this princely sum….
They could issue some other form of punishment where he can get back on his feet, pay restitution and community service work. Give back something to the community instead of keep taking from the taxpayers.
A Billings resident was just picked up for his 13th DUI: What will you bet he gets less time the homless man?
I don’t understand. There seems to be no rhyme or reason on these cases. You would think that they would have that person locked up longer since he definitely is a repeat offender. Well, unless the person has money or influence then we both know why.
If you notice an innocent poor person is treated worse than a rich guilty person.
Yes, look at the judges that have been charged and the breaks they received. Look at those that work within the state departments and all of the breaks they receive. Take a look at all of those that admitted to felony charges and the others that were under investigation at the same time that things went down for the Incarcerated MT Fireman. Not one thing was done to any of them. They actually admitted to authorities. MT Fireman did not. No proof, no evidence and experts actually proved in his defense. Yet, DOJ used illegal actions to gain his conviction.