A 45-year-old male with 42 previous arrests and charges on his record was cuffed yet again Friday in Springfield, Illinois, for criminal trespass, the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office said.

That evening, James J. Kirst was released from jail on a notice to appear, authorities said.

“When it becomes better to be in jail than be free being a productive citizen working, it’s past time to make jail a place no one wants to go,” another commenter wrote. “Three hots and a cot and watching TV, etc., needs to be exchanged for their work in prison doing something constructive that is useful to the general public. No more free rides in jail! Hard labor needs to come back, and I bet we would see the jail population decrease.”

“What infuriates me is that people who do what this man has been doing … clearly need psychiatric help,” another commenter stated. “He really can’t help what he’s doing. 42 arrests. There is no proper program or facility for him that will actually help him, so they keep locking him up in jail, releasing, and repeat. What we, as a nation, are doing to people who need serious help is shameful.”

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