[Stefan Stackhouse]

Violent criminals need to be confined in isolation until their trials and appeals are finished, then executed -- and all of this needs to happen as quickly as possible within the bounds of due process.

Non-violent criminals need to be put on strictly supervised probation and required to make restitution.

If these policies were implements, our prisons could be almost emptied, there would be no rape inside prisons, and our crime rate would be much lower than it is now. And, I would argue, this is all a much more humane treatement of prisoners than what we have now.

[job]

Absolutlely!! I thought I was the only one who thought that is the system that should be implemented. Where the crime involve theft, loss of money, destruction of property, non-violent crimes to people, no one really wins by making the guy go to jail. Now, if the guy had to work and fork over a third of what he made each pay day until he paid his victim, the victim gets restored, the offender learns a lesson, and hopefully has a much better shot at becoming a productive citizen, (not to mention the human toll on his family; he could repay his debt to the victim, but also still be there and a part of his family).

Violent criminals are a different matter entirely. Armed robbery, assault, rape, murder, all those folks in a different institution, closely monitored, little freedom.