Our culture has gone to Hell in a handbasket, and as a result, our prisons are bursting at the seems. I'd recommend executing all murderers, drug dealers, and child molesters. For non-violent offenders, I'd recommend lots of community service and fines (to put some money and resources back into the system). Your thoughts?
2007-03-10 16:48:55 · 16 answers · asked by Down With Crack Whores And Pimps 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Prisons are overcrowded because 80% of inmates return to prison in the first year after their release. They return to prison becuase they cannot obtain the employment after their release and have no family support. Most inmates want an honest living after their prison term and they want to work hard for an honest living, but no one wants to give them a job. They also have no place to live, because most landlords will not rent a place for them. Things being like that, they have no choice, but to return back to prison (80% of them). Many inmates don't want to get released because they have no place to go on the outside and they know that the employment prospects are bleak for them, so they try to violate their parole and do everything possible to remain in prison, and this contributes to the overcrowding.
By the way, I have met more real people and truly good friends in prison than here, outside.
2007-03-10 17:04:29 · answer #1 · answered by OC 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Death Penalty enaction is a must.
The message we send to these violent repeat offenders is the worse you will get is life in prison, where thats the only place these convicts are accustomed to.
Then the prison system becomes its own survival of the fitest kingdom where the lifers with nothing to lose prey on the weaker, and less violent criminals.
The rapes, the extortion and intimidation tactics.
It no longer is a place for rehabilitiation, but more one of survival.
Non violent offenders, harsher first time offenses that will sink the point in -- youre getting away with this once..make them learn not to do it again.
Driving under influence, speeding. -- 5 year suspension automatically.
For the family you could have killed.
More than one child molestation -- life in prison.
Brutal murder, kidnap, rape, torture....death penalty
Drugs, and gangs -- segregated imprisonment for life or close to it.
TOUGHER penalties is the only answer
2007-03-11 00:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by writersbIock2006 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I recommened you take a better look at what has caused the "overcrowding" of "OUR" prisons. let's all be educated today ok? Todays lesson # 1 The prisons in the majority of states are...NOT owned or opperated by the state. Let me give you some insight. Here in Oklahoma there was a govenor we all know . The great gov. Keating. He as Gov. made a law that made it possible for a privatized company to run the states prisons so that the cost of maning them with state officers and the freeing up of personnel for more policing of the public would occur. So, lets see here.....hmm all sounds cool! i mean taxes right? Except the fact that his wife {lovely woman} JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY THAT PRIVATELY RUNS ALL OKLA. PRISONS $$$$$ So The situation seems that is hubby the law maker can pump out mandates by the 100's therefore creating the need to build more prisons so that wifee can contract state money for her sevices we might , just might be drawn to the idea of putting minor offences in doc so that mama gets the fishing boat and jr gets his law degree so he too can rape us all , Even you there mr. executioner PLEASE !! You better rethink your obvious un researched recommendation for the killing of our "guilty as charged". I hope you realize that i agree that those who mess with kids and those who can take another human life unjustly should die, this would include such people like gov.Keating for the take of human life by imprisoning unjustly, and the judges who make the decision to imprison people while using a penis pump. AND THOSE WHO ARE BEHIND THE JUDICIARY AND MAKE THERE COMMENTS SHOW THEIR IGNORENCE FEEL ME? NOTHING BUT PERSONAL !! BUB. DON'T GET CAUGHT AND END UP IN MY CELL ...CELLY LMAO
2007-03-11 04:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by rick s 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Chain gangs. Feed them camp them and move em lillily doggies along, cleaning up the highways and painting the centre line, a job for the nasties. There might be an oops occasionally by a drunk driver or somebody wanting to play skittles, in their car
2007-03-11 01:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by Murray H 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's correct the solution would be to stop putting people into prisons.
As for murderers, drug dealers, and child molesters.
Well, for murderers and child molesters, it might be best to let the relatives of the victims decide on what to do with them.
For drug dealers, they become criminals due politics since drug dealing by itself done no harm, so drug dealers in prisons are basically political prisoners. It's up to the government on what to do with these political prisoners.
As for non-violent offenders.
It might be best to let the victims decide on what to do with them.
2007-03-11 01:16:16 · answer #5 · answered by E A C 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Home detention is a good alternative for 'small' offenders. Fines are no good as they punish the poor more than they do the rich unless the fines are based on income (they are for some offences in France and are therefore more fair)
2007-03-11 00:53:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ferret 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
do away with mandatory minimum guidelines! low level offenders -drug offenders are getting more time than rapists and repeat offenders who hurt or kill people. OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS DISGUSTING!
2007-03-11 01:48:13 · answer #7 · answered by B2 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like a good start to me!!!
2007-03-11 10:01:43 · answer #8 · answered by Tara 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are just bursting with hate, aren't you. Calm down. A lot of this has to do with three strikes, where someone who stole a car at 16 and did a forgery at 25 gets locked up for life at 33 for stealing a loaf of bread. Just go see what Polly Klaas's dad Marc has to say about three strikes. It is inappropriate in many cases.
What we'd need is to make the punishment progressive - a stepped-up level of punishment within the same category: sentence for first forgery is five years with the offender and 10 other NON-OFFENDERS in a half-way house instilling society's values into the perp's head by outnumbering him/her in such a lopsided way that nobody could resist the pressure; second offense: 5 years in solitary; third, life/execution depending on how heinous the crime was. Let the legal experts decide what constitutes a category for the purpose of progressive punishment. Give back discretionary power to the Judge to determine severity/mercy in three-strikes cases. In case of true insanity, lobotomy/sociopathic behavior, lock them up in the looney bin not the prison.
Next: murder has varying degrees - conspiracy, negligent homicide, manslaughter, heat of blood, second, first, first as in a mob killer, etc. You cannot punish them all the same. Execute the murder 1 and hitmen-types. Execute all others on repeat offense except accidental.
Next, you have to make membership in any gang a life-sentence with no possibility of parole - including gang tattoos as proof - if you have the tattoo - lock you up on the first offense - even for innocent civilian "wannabees".
Next you have to decriminalize all drugs - if someone wants to OD on heroin, let them. With legalization the price goes down, the taxes go up (Government makes a large fee for any sale), the Government has a handle on who uses what to separate innocent pot smoker-types (like my friend who has cancer) from vicious crank users (who go insane with usage, like those who use PCP and coke, killing for the drug or going berserk on the highways). Result: gangs have no power, etc.
If we do not take these steps in about 20 years 65% of the adults in this country will be in prison with the rest of us 35% paying for it. That is an untenable position. Time to stop judging drug use as immoral - it is PHYSICAL, nothing more, nothing less, UNLESS you keep it immoral by letting IMMORAL people (the gangs) run it. Intoxication is natural. Many bears and other animals in Honduras go back year after year to get "stoned" on wild berries - many animals eat unripe coffee berries to get wired. Drugs were given by God to man for a purpose, albeit limited and under medical supervision. Not my fault if someone mis-uses them, but not my honor to be soiled by executing them, either. The Anslinger crowd that started Prohibition made Marijuana illegal back in the Thirties once Prohibition was repealed - why? Because they were teetotalers and moralists that shoved their morality down your and my throats - they want to control you and take away your free choice and GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO GET STONED. YES I EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO DESTROY MYSELF - time to stop preaching to people that it is a sin to exercise their innate God-given rights to use a safe herb created by God. You may think they're going to hell but that does not give you a lawful right to rob them of their rights.
By the way, our culture has gone to hell because of Atheism, lack of parental training, diminished academic standards, technology of Youtube and iPod that isolates the individual, diminishing his/her empathy and causing youth to become hedonists; as well as other trends set in motion WAY before the present Prison crisis - it's just a symptom, not the cause by any stretch of the imagination.
2007-03-11 01:27:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
send them to iraq and if they come back alive release them
2007-03-11 12:21:05 · answer #10 · answered by ~beagleluvr~ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋