Over crowding in our jails..What should we do with them and should they get free cable?

Question

Do you think criminal get to much free stuff, What should we do with tthem all, and did we go wronge?

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Answer 1

Overcrowding -build more prisons.
Free cable - if I can't have it, why should they?
Did we go wrong? I think many people have been going wrong for many years.
Closing mental hospitals and instigating the utter failure that is "care in the community" have added to crime and the prison population.
The government has been lying and telling us that crime has been decreasing for so many years, that maybe they actually came to believe it in the end. If "crime is decreasing" then talking about building new prisons would blow it somewhat.
Short sentences and community sentences do not discourage criminals.
Political correctness and the manipulative use of the human rights act is hampering sensible policing and open discussion of problems.
Police have no time for policing because they have too much paper work to do.
Parents have the responsibility of bringing thier children up to know the difference between right and wrong, and in many cases this is just not happening.
The government's policy of Inclusion in state education, and the dismantling of the special school support sysytem has had an enormously detrimental effect on education in this country, as regular schools cannot provide for the needs of emotionally disturbed kids.
Taking all authority away from teachers has encouraged children to take the piss from an earlier age.
People want stuff and don't have the work ethic to save up and buy it, the media and the banks encourage this materialism.
Sorry to go on, I'll stop now. It just makes you so angry doesn't it?
The real crux of it is, in my opinion, that the government will never admit they are wrong about anything at all.

Answer 2

Too many people are sentenced to jail that could be penalized another way and that would make less overcrowding. Should they get free cable? Why not? There is very little else for these people to do while they're locked up. Should they lose their minds in a stuffed up little room with dozens of others they don't know because they ran a red light or didn't show up for a court date? Even drunk drivers & drug addicts belong in a recovery program as opposed to jail.

What free stuff do they get? Food and orange coveralls? Prisoners have to pay for anything extra just like people on the outside. Of course since they have no money, it's their families that have to pay.

Did we go wrong? Yes. We've made too many useless laws and instead of enforcing the major ones, we make criminals out of people who really don't warrant it.

Answer 3

as a former prisoner, I know that no one gets anything free in the joint. Everything has a cost. All amenities are paid for from the profits made from prisoner stores and canteens. The state offers nothing but a set of clothing and food. even the indigent prisoners are cared for out of the profits from the stores, which make money from prisoners who sometimes make only pennies a day. Maybe its time for some of the people who haven't been there to stop thinking about how to punish someone else even more than they are being punished by the loss of their freedom and dignity and start to think about how to improve society so that so many people are not making the poor decisions that cause the loss of freedom in the first place!

Answer 4

I think the money we use for amenities, should be used towards rehabilitation, training and making sure each prisoner is ready to be released back into mainstream society so that they can assimilate and act like a normal person. If they are sexual deviants or if it is determined they will do the same violent crime again, I believe these individual should get lobotomies and be institutionalized.

Yes, to me our society is being too extreme in giving criminals rights. To often, the punishment does not fit the crime and prison is nothing but a temporary holding cell for most criminals, where they can pretty much do what they want, under limited supervision, until they serve their time. They do get too much "unnecessary free stuff", too.

Answer 5

Lets just say eye for an eye. You kill someone you get killed. It's a simple answer. Cable let them read a book. I'm in the military and when we go to war and risk our lives for this country we don't get no damn cable. And we are doing a good thing! What they did was flat out wrong.

Answer 6

Programs could be set up where inmates do work for companies and earn credits for their earnings. These credits could be used for upgraded food, cigarette purchases, hot showers, television privileges, etc.. Cable should cost more than basic television. Anything beyond the most basic of food to sustain life should cost points. Working in these programs would help the inmates learn how to work in a productive job and could include training programs (which they would pay for with credits they earned from basic jobs). The inmates would receive debits for bad behavior and not showing up to their jobs on time. There should be no comforts beyond what is required to sustain life that is not paid for by credits. Credits should not be transferable, so that one inmate could not be forced to do work for another.

Answer 7

i dont think that free cable is the main issue at hand...dont get me wrong i dont think that they should have free cable in any istitution...i think that they need to focus more on rehabbing criminals instead of just locking them up for their offenses...some people dont learn the severity of their criminal actions by getting a free place to live, eat, sleep, shower, etc....you could make their probation or parole more community related and interactive etc...i think that making these criminals do things for others instead of themselves would help teach them a lesson or two.

Answer 8

The answer is simple, really. Build more jails and prisons. You commit the crime, you're doing the time. If they want cable and all these other "luxuries", they can pay for them just like everyone else does.

Answer 9

I think criminals should be placed in guarded compounds, given a strictly regimented schedule, and made to be productive. If they were able to earn enough doing whatever type of manufacturing or labor to pay for their time in prison, and to pay for the guards and facilities they would probably not want to be there, so would straighten up.

Answer 10

I'd say give them free housing in Beverley Hills!