So what’s the point of this? Prison is not supposed to be a walk in the park. It’s not supposed to be a picnic. It’s not supposed to be a vacation.
After reading it, I would say the emphasis is not on conditions but on mandatory minimums ie more mindless zero tolerance, which allows autocrats to avoid thought and accountability.
Your response is a straw argument and totally misses the point of this particular person making these particular points. Unless Kerik is a lib weenie (and he is not) and unless he supports prison as a walk in the park (and he doesnt) your response was mere drive by babbling...
We have to get real here. The US has the highest rate of incarcerated citizens than *any* country in the world. We’re even higher than China and Russia. For a ‘free’ nation, that’s insane.
It’s not realistic to put a human being in a system where they’re treated like animals for a decade or two, then release them back into civilization, and expect them to become model citizens. If a prisoner’s expected to rejoin society at some point, we must prepare them for being civilized.
Mandatory minimums make as much sense as schools’ “zero tolerance” policies.