We have turned prisons from a place of punishment to a place of “rehabilitation” as if crime was a disease or a handicap rather than a choice of action. If criminals faced hard time they wouldn’t want to return and the recidivist rate would drop. It would also turn prisons into a place to fear rather than a place of higher education in crime.
Wrong. There is little focus on rehabilitation and with a majority in for drugs, rehab is needed. Add to the a complete lack of opportunity once you serve your time and you get what we currently have, a revolving door of misery and social failure. How is that scarlet letter program working out these days?
I doubt any of you calling for hard labor or hard time have stepped foot in prison. Its not summer camp. Loss of freedom, rape, abuse, that is far from a system even remotely interested in dealing with the nature of crime. Simple solutions to complex problems are a recipe for failure but it takes a non simple mind to understand that. That is asking a lot from prozac addled baby boomers who call for hard time for drug users while swilling booze and prescription medicine and avoiding problems. I’m sure many are happy living in a stone age with stone age mentality and tactics but you are the reason for our current justice system, its tyranny, and failure. Congratulations baby boomers for turning America into a Prison State.
This is why Republicans are a party of losers. They continue to institute the same policies and programs and hide from failure yet expect the rest of us to smile when you double down on your miserable institution of fail. You cannot have a system of limited gov when you throw everyone in jail for behavior “you don’t like”. You cant afford to stand on the bodies of victims where there aren’t any. Many don’t even know what a victimless crime is. Just sweep the criminals under the rug... all criminals are the same, let me hide from the truth.
Real men, honest men, godly men admit failure and learn. They modify their systems when they produce negative results. They dont let childish notions like fear of change hold them back. Changes is coming and it is about time. The American dream needs to be let out of jail to make room for crimes where there are actual victims... not imaginary ones where you get to fellate your false sense of moral superiority.