should prisoners?

Question

Be made to run/walk for at least 8 hours a day on a giant tread mill that is linked to a dynamo? This way they would actually be benefiting society and helping the environment!

All extra energy produced could either be sold back to the electricity board of power surrounding houses?

and to all you that say prison is punishment!

i work there i see how easy life is!!

i cant even afford SKY so why should they have it?

and the whole point of prison is to deter criminals!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

This is a smart idea they do have some jails where they farm and make all types of differnt thimgs.Why not have they walk and then elctricity would be free after awhile then the money could go back into helping them rehibilatae so they don't re affend.The constant flow a repeat a feenders is crazy.I say YES.

Answer 2

People go to prison AS punishment NOT FOR punishment. Rehabilitation is the name of the game. People are denied their liberty and there endeth the punishment - unless they are on a Life sentence when they are later able to have liberty but with massive restrictions.

Many prisons offer work opportunities which benefit the public at large.

Have you lived a perfect blame free life? Or are you normal, like the rest of us and just get away with things. Being drunk outside your front door is a crime, exceeding the speed limit is a crime, shouting at someone is a crime and can be even at home. Most people do something wrong - probably quite regularly. There is a saying about glass houses. Prisoners are often those unlucky enough to be caught or not clever enough to avoid capture or rich enough to afford one of these tricksy barristers.

Anyone who supports this sort of rubbish idea needs to find out more about crime and punishment.

Answer 3

Prison doesn't work and every one knows it !

At present a criminal whatever his crime is effectively just sent to bed ?

90% of prisoners have never had a full time job and have no concept of what it is to earn something .

I believe that the way forward is to force prisoners to earn their freedom through physical work , they should be paid for what they do into an account and given a balance statement each month , when they have earned enough to buy their release they should be given the money in cash and asked to pay the Governor for release .

Even the most simple mind should grasp what it is they have lost by committing their crime and will hopefully think to themselves in future I'll earn it and keep for myself .

Young offenders on the other hand should be sentenced to one month in solitary confinement and the conviction should remain undisclosed on condition that they do not re-offend ,

All to often the confusion that we all feel as teenagers causes us to go wrong and as teens will they wear their conviction like a brand assuming that there can be no hope for them now they have a criminal record and so go down hill from there .

Answer 4

This is a great idea. How would you encourage them to keep moving? Can I, as a father and grandfather, volunteer to be the one giving them the encouragement?I will happily supply my own equipment!! Seriously though, rapists and child molesters should have it very tough while they are in prison, it might give them a reason not to re offend when they are eventually released.

Answer 5

Extra energy? They would hardly produce enough energy to make light for a few rooms. But anyway, it's a great idea.

Answer 6

i don't no about tread mills and stuff like that but i like the way this this sheriff does things plz. read and srry that i can't get the pics on here they were kind of good.



TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.





THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked! up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.




More on the Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it.

Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona

Answer 7

Have you been looking at a pet hamster ?

You can't get anyone to do anything anymore, it would be too difficult - political correctness, taking jobs from other, slavery, health and safetly, "I'm not used power provided by a murderer" etc......

In a logical world, it would be a great idea

Answer 8

You are even more savage than those in charge of the prison system just over a century ago ago, when Oscar Wilde was made to walk on a treadmill for only 6 hours a day for the two years of imprisonment he served and died shortly after his release.

“Hard labour” in an English prison was no euphemism. Every prisoner was expected to walk six hours a day on a treadmill in 29-minute increments with five-minute breaks. The distance to be covered was the equivalent of a 6,000-foot incline. Taken from the Old Bailey to Newgate Prison, Wilde had his belongings taken from him and was outfitted with grey prison togs with their distinctive black arrows pattern.

Shortly after being read the rules of the prison system -- utter silence at all times -- Wilde was taken to his cell and fed a typical meal of watery porridge and a slice of bread. From Newgate he was taken to Pentonville Prison where he was placed on the treadmill. At night he was returned to his cell, where he slept on a wooden plank without mattress.

Diet at Pentonville consisted of cocoa and bread for breakfast, soup or sliced meat for dinner, and suet and potatoes for tea. Exercise consisted of walking in a circle single-file silently for one hour a day. He was required to attend chapel every morning and twice on Sundays. Visitors were allowed once every three months for 20 minutes. Physical contact was out of the question, as were books, paper and pen.

"Already Wilde has grown much thinner," wrote a contemporary newspaper. "He has great difficulty in getting to sleep, and from time to time he loudly bemoans the bitterness of his fate."
Slowly, over time, Wilde adapted to prison and it to him. Wilde served his time and was released. His works had enjoyed a small revival because of his notoriety, but he was still bankrupt and persona non grata in London. Over time, with the help of his friends, he managed to bring his estate out of bankruptcy. He fled to France, where he died in 1900.

The crime for which he served this harsh sentence is not regarded as a crime today. You don't even choose to distinguish between the different categories of crime in the brilliant scheme of which you are so proud. Perhaps you would even extend it to prisoners on remand?

Answer 9

Good point, that is a nice way of getting more energy instead of wasting the Earth's resources to get it.

Answer 10

Great idea, that way prisoners can contribute to the country as well as drain our resources!!! And they cn actually start to think back and regret their crimes while their bored!!