Posted on 02/09/2012 4:24:43 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
From 1980 to 2007, the number of prisoners held in the United States quadrupled to 2.3 million, with an additional 5 million on probation or parole. What Ayn Rand once called the “freest, noblest country in the history of the world” is now the most incarcerated, and the second-most incarcerated country in history, just barely edged out by Stalin’s Soviet Union. We’re used to hearing about the widening chasm between the haves and have-nots; we’re less accustomed to contemplating a more fundamental gap: the abyss that separates the fortunate majority, who control their own bodies, from the luckless minority, whose bodies are controlled, and defiled, by the state.
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Yeah. Everyone in jail is a "psychopath". Everyone is guilty and violent.
The psychopaths are not what's being discussed and you know it.
No, what’s being discussed is the social contract, the root causes, collective guilt and all the crock the liberals throw at us to divert responsibility from the criminal.
Liberals like Ed Meese and the Heritage Foundation?
http://www.heritage.org/issues/legal/rule-of-law/overcriminalization
Why does no one propose something useful like default capital punishment for murder? You'd have to turn prisons into condos for lack of demand.
The folks in prison deserve to be there - with VERY RARE exception. Please drop the liberal 'feel the pain' of monsters stuff. That crap went out of style in the 70's.
By your silly logic, if murder was made legal they'd be less crime. Same for rape. Do you actually believe that? The laws are made by citizens to maintain a MINIMUM standard of decency. That criminals fall below that low standard is stunning... and creepy beyond words.
China locks up a lot of political prisoners. If China had the criminals we have they'd just shoot them. I doubt the Chinese would feed some lowlife serial killer for 20 years - or even 5. Check it out - they kill 'em.
I agree with your points, but this is where the US is headed if there isn’t concerted effort to block this, which is still not as bad as the political prisoners in Western China being used as organ harvesting black market cash flow for corrupt Police Forces..., but it’s worse than the 19th century British debtors’ prisons.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/private-prisons-buying-state-prisons_n_1272143.html
“As state governments wrestle with massive budget shortfalls, a Wall Street giant is offering a solution: cash in exchange for state property. Prisons, to be exact.
Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for “challenging corrections budgets.” In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Huffington Post.”
I'd like to see some kind of ‘non-recidivism bonus. If a guy doesn't come back for 5 years, they get extra money. Pay them to help people get off the wheel and maybe they'll make it a priority.
I don't care if they "get better" or not. "Corrections" is just a joke anyway. I want violent bastards locked up, kept away from the public, and weakened.
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