What do overcrowded jails say about today’s lawyers?

Answer 1

They are not overcrowded enough if you ask me... too many people that belong in jail now are walking on the streets.

Answer 2

I don't really see a message about lawyers, unless you mean to imply that a good lawyer would get a person off on anything regardless of the facts. Remember that it is lawyers that are prosecuting as well, so for every case lost by a defense lawyer its another lawyer's win...so again, don't see the connection.

Our over crowded jail system speaks of the moral decay of our society and the fact that the consequences within our established guidelines are not a deterrent to the criminal element.

Here's an idea, make the punishment fit the crime and once a person has accumulated five years of total lifetime incarceration, execute them. For crimes like murder and rape - sentence 5 years and 1 day; for crimes like burglary of habitation - 1 year; Simple assault - 3 months. So now you have your repeat offender dirt bag that has accumulated 4 years and six months and he knows as soon as he goes over five he's going to be executed, chances are he'll become a responsible law abiding citizen.

Oh and by the way, I spent seven years on fast attack submarines where the captain's stateroom was smaller than the average inmate jail cell, so you can imagine what us lowly NCOs had. Anyhow, it would take some pretty serious crowding for me to consider them over-crowded.

Answer 3

Wow, girl. Which lawyers? The ones who make the laws or the ones charged with staying abreast of all those new laws? (New laws every year! Good lord, why? Don't we have enough laws already? Can we try enforcing the ones we have now?)

Our government was never intended to be run by lawyers. The founding fathers must roll in their graves non-stop due to the overwhelming number of lawyers running our country. The jails are full due to conflicting cultures, in my opinion. Some of the citizens want to keep certain things illegal, e.g., assault, illicit drugs, murder, auto theft. Our prisons and jails are full of what are basically non-victimizing criminals, who are criminals only because what they've done is against the law, not necessarily a harmful or damaging act, i.e., growing or possessing marijuana. Until our society comes to grips with non-victimizing crimes, jails and prisons will continue to burst and the seams - and create jobs.... another answer entirely, don't you think?

Answer 4

Absolutely nothing. However, it says a lot about today's society and politics. If "Overcrowded" means that not every prisoner gets his own room, they get cable TV, a free high school AND college education, free gym equipment (that costs several hundred dollars for each piece), free food, free clothing, free soap, etc., then "overcrowded" sure is nice! It is sad, but most prisoners have a higher quality of life while in jail than I have! They get better food, better medical care, and more luxuries than I do! I have a problem with that.

Answer 5

Nothing...what do lawyers have to do with overcrowded jails? Lawyers are not the ones committing crime...and even then the vast majority of attorneys dont' even practice criminal law.
If you are insinuating that they are responsible....how do you figure that? The process is set and the rules of jails and how laws are made and what people are sentenced to are up to your state legislatures not the attorney prosecuting or defending the suspects.

Answer 6

I think it speaks more of juries than lawyers...Lawyers don't sentence, technically neither do the juries. they only make the suggestion of punishment.. so maybe it even falls onto the judge.

Answer 7

It sez nothing about lawyers it sez we have to build more prisons.

Answer 8

Not nearly as much as it says about the idiots who use drugs and the vermin who sell them.