Thanks for the post. Part of prison reform would be sentencing. Prisons are schools for violent anti-social behavior, and I agree with your thoughts on reforming them. But a quick fix is to reduce the people actually sentenced to prisons, so they skip the violent training. We can have alternative sentencing like stiff financial penalties so that we can at least keep non violent criminals out of prisons. And the very violent and insane should stay in prison, and be segregated from others who will get out eventually. No need to mix people with nothing to lose with people who still have something to gain.
Exactly. A nonviolent person shouldn’t really even go to prison. Home confinement after working hours is more than sufficient.
People need to realize that a large part of the prison population, perhaps the majority, come from broken homes in which government action - incentives for fatherless households and failed government education systems - is to blame. While we need to have high standards, we need to also recognize and have mercy on those who err and truly want to change.
It’s a big picture approach to reform. End the incentive for teen motherhood by demanding adoption by economically responsive adults and an enormous part of the problem dissolves. The baby-daddy/baby-mommy culture has to be killed completely. Government is the biggest proponent of bad behavior and by that I include its supporters - the Left.