What would you change if you were in charge of the prison system?

Question

They get to smoke.. drink.. even have sex.. they get to watch tv.. wear their own clothes.. they have jobs.. they even get steaks if they pay for it.. hell they have more than i do on most days.. why is it right they get these things..Most are not rehabilitated..why even have prisons? so what do you think?

Answer 1

I don't know what prison you are talking about, but I have never heard of a prison in the US that has the amenities that you describe. Nonetheless, the following changes should be made to the prison system.

Sentences should be real, no "time off."

Privileges should only be granted for good time and should be taken away for any infraction. I would divide the prison into sections from 23 hour lockdown (the max allowed under law) to near freedom. Prisoners who are convicted of non-violent offenses and may be released into society could ultimately make their way to the near freedom section to reassimilate.

Serious drug and alcohol treatment in prison. Lets face it, most prisoners are there due to problems with drugs or alcohol. It doesn't make sense to release them back into society without treatment. They will just reoffend.

The goal should be to determine those who can be rehabilitated and those who cannot. For those who can, we need to put them back into society in better shape than they were when they went in rather than worse. Education and socialization are the keys to this. Just as the military must resocialize all recruits, prisons must assume that every person walking in that door is anti-social and needs to be broken down and resocialized.

Answer 2

The inmates would only go to college if they paid for the classes on a sliding scale.
Drink? What? Where do they wear their own clothes?
They need to attend programs that they are required to attend or the judges must be told before the inmates released. More GED testing dates are needed.

Answer 3

first I would get rid of the country club style and bring it back
to the older days and the chain gang where they work their
butts off and wouldn't want to return once released. Then I
also would free up space and start frying those on death
row that using up tax payers money for years and years.

Answer 4

I would keep them in lock down 23 hours per day and the hour they get out, they would still be alone. I would prevent any communication between prisoners. Maybe if it was really boring their would be less recidivism.

Answer 5

I would make them work and pay for their time in jail. No TV's minimal entertainment. The work doesn't have to be all that meaningful. Chain gangs cleaning graffiti off everything, picking trash up, anything hard work. They should work to pay for thier food. Also make families pay for thier children in jail. It would make more parents take care of thier kids.

Answer 6

Require them to maintain at least a B average in a college curriculum of their choosing before allowing such privileges.

Answer 7

they currently get cable and 3 meal options in some prisons and they even have weakly activates to me it sounds like a Violante some camp and my step brothers in for murder so don't say i don't know what I'm talking about.

Answer 8

i would take away all there privielgaes(sp) and beat the sh!t out of them all the time. u take poop, u get hit. u don't eat your fish head soup you get hit. hard labor would also be the norm. i;m talking your everyday laundry, license plate, etc. plowing fields like mules use to. habitat for humanity homes without power tools. cleaning porta-potties with a tootbrush. laying asphalt without the nice paving equipment. and i could think of hundreds more.

Answer 9

New Mexico, has a Level System, that
seems to be fair, and gets results......
compared to other states........

Answer 10

Build a bigger one like that and give em life. That way they can be toghether and not want to get out.