“I dare say 99% of prisoners have no business being in prison”
You have a different view of the world than I do. If we let 99% of the people now in prison commit any crime they wanted and let them know they had no fear of punishment what do you think our country would be like?
“If we let 99% of the people now in prison commit any crime they wanted and let them know they had no fear of punishment what do you think our country would be like?”
I cannot answer that because it’s not what I said, and it doesn’t make sense.
I never said people shouldn’t be disciplined/punished, I said that prison wasn’t helping anything. If you are a parent, and evey time your kid did something bad you locked them in their room, you’d be an incompetent parent. Looking someone is perhaps the very least effective form of anything there is (unless the person is so mentally unstable they can’t be rehabilitated from their violent tendencies). Most of the prisoners are not even violent, but on drug related charges (which is an entire other argument), and a great many had not committed a crime against another person.
In any event, I’ve responded to the ridiculous notion that people shouldn’t be punished/disciplined. Prison today is a money making enterprise, and actually, a criminal training ground in many cases, don’t think of it as anything else, because it’s not.