We need to build more prisons?

Question

There are far too many criminals getting paroled or slap-on-the-wrist sentences because we simply do not have enough room to warehouse the scumbags. We need to alleviate some of this overcrowding by building more prisons. It doesn't have to cost alot. Sheriff Joseph Arpaio has his inmates living in tents.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!!:

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 but 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 is a good one......"This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

Answer 1

I think Sheriff Joseph Arpaio is a great sheriff, I do not understand why it is not a requirement for all law enforcement to be like him. If he ran for president I would vote for him.

Answer 2

In some ways we need more prisons, so people don't get away with things, that are done and should have jail time for. A lot of people get off with a smack on the hand because they do not have the room to put them when they go to jail. I totally agree that they shouldn't have all the great things that they give them in the jail houses, no should be no joy time, they aren't there to have fun! In another way, they should make punishment worse for these repeated criminals that keep doing things to put them in jail.

Answer 3

I agree with Sheriff Joe Arpaio 100%!!! I think all prisons should be that way!!! That's why it's prison! Otherwise, what's the point of sending anyone there!?

Answer 4

Incarceration of a prisoner can cost upwards of 35K annually. Sure we can cut costs, cut costs, and cut costs, but the issue is...

Why incarcerate individuals for victimless crimes?

We allow those convicted of larceny, writing bad checks, etc. to opt for prison time instead of financial retribution. Why?

We incarcerate individuals for minor drug infractions. Why?

THe issue is not MORE prisons, the issue is... Why do we need so much prison space in the first place?

We are too quick to want to "punish" someone by incarcerating them. If they are not a threat to society, there is no need for incarceration.

We need new methods of punishment... community service, financial retribution, etc.

Why feed, house and clothe someone while they repay their debt to society, put em on a repayment plan through money or time.

My 2 cents.

Answer 5

I think the sherrif's tough rules and work program is good, but what about when they get out? there needs to be programs to require and ensure these prisoners are becoming productive working members of society after parolled, or else they go right back in... for us to take care of.

Answer 6

No, we don't need more prisons. What we need are better deterrents. The threat of having your hand cut off for stealing is a good start and when you get the death sentence it means you die. Dispense with the "life" sentences. If the crime is so horrible that you deserve - and get - life, then kill them!

Answer 7

regardless of the shown fact that it type of feels logical that construction a prison contained in the direction of the wasteland might decrease costs, ......that's deceptive. indexed under are lots of the excuses: First: you ought to build large homes with heavy strengthened steel and urban . the fee of establishing way outdoors of cities is greater, no longer decreased, by using all the 1000's and 1000's of contractors and workers ought to commute great distances, and convey heavy kit for shape 1000's of miles. 2nd: you ought to run electric powered traces and an entire electric powered grid substation many miles to the middle of nowhere. additionally, you ought to run water and sewer scientific care pipes many miles and then miles returned for sewage scientific care, telephone and communique structures. third: you ought to pay greater for each pound of foodstuff, clothing, and all different kit that must be freighted to the area, daily, a week,each and each month.and so on. Fourth: you ought to have adequate housing for greater suitable than 1000 reformatory guards and directors, docs, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and their households and young infants, and all the help for a small city from gasoline stations and grocery shops. and then,....who desires to paintings and stay contained in the direction of the wasteland far off from colleges, hospitals, municipal centers, and all that makes an area. reformatory guards are nicely-paid, and deservedly so, and you ought to recruit the proper you will locate. that's no longer low priced. Fourth: you ought to have some public transit to get to and from the reformatory, the two for workers and travelers, (attorneys, reformatory administration, and so on.) upload to this probable 50 or greater miles of street and throughway, and the fee is extensive. the fee- according to -mattress for each prisoner is sufficient to deliver a toddler to the proper , costliest college or college contained in u . s . of america.(upwards of $25-35,000 according to 3 hundred and sixty 5 days each and each).

Answer 8

Hey!! Does that go for white collar crime too? Or are they all filling up the "country club" prisons? I bet Sheriff Joseph Arpaio is a Christian, huh???

Answer 9

I agree with you 110%

Answer 10

We need more prisons! We can't have more people to get free becuase of no room!