We have a criminal problem. Would Fareed prefer we chop off their hands?
Comparisons to Stalin are just plain silly.
US leads the per capita incarceration rate, followed closely by Russia with Uganda in third place (no kidding).
It's a national disgrace.
When the phalanx of freepers invariably comment on this thread about how we have a criminal problem and not a prison industrial complex problem, ask them just how many Americans per 100k population would need to be incarcerated before they’d consider the problem to be the prison-industrial complex, and not the criminality of the population.
Clean out death row and then do the math again. The numbers will look way better.
“a prisoner costs it $45,006 a year.”
They cost a lot more when they are running around committing crimes.
A lot more. And some things, like being unraped or unterrorized, really don’t even have a price.
The windswept, barren, often-frozen Aleutian island chain extends 1200 miles into the Ocean towards Russia.
So, we empty all the prisons and drop the prisoners off on the islands, and invite them to walk home. The mile marker where you get dropped off will vary with the type of crime.
Crooked politicians would get dropped off one mile offshore of the outermost island.
That’s not just many more than in most other developed countries but seven to 10 times as many.————
Well, we did stop those burning at the stake, hanging by nooses from a tree and beheading thing...
unlike other countries.
apples VS oranges....our prisoners are worthless trash that prey upon other folks. In most of those other countries, a large number of prisoners are political prisoners.....if you don’t like Castro, and say so, chances are that you are going to jail.....not so here...good thing too, we don’t have 310,000,000 cells available.
If you don’t break the law, your chances of being incarcerated are reduced considerably.
Questions:
What percentage of the prison population is
White
Hispanic
Black
Life without parole
non violent
Drug possession
Now take all non violent put an ankle bracelet on them charge them a fee and send them home where they can go to and from work to home and that’s it. Let a computer monitor their where abouts every five minutes.
next all non citizens deliver them to law enforcement in their native country. Let their own country pay for their incarceration.
Now for those with life without parole we find a piece of land five miles on a side no people on that land and put up a triple fence, middle fence electrified, with cameras, motion sensors, vibration sensors. Enough guards to keep the fence under observation with no guards inside the fence. Hand the felon a pack with garden seeds and hand tools for working the soil and put them through the fence where they can take care of them selves. No fly zone above the place with automatic shoot down.
Then dismantle the war on poverty. That is the biggest single factor among minorities breaking up families and putting young men in prison.
The above should save this nation at least half the current cost of our prison system and leave the prison population at or below 10% of what it was.
soetoro should be in one of them.