should prisoners be given more or less?

Question

than they are currently given? i mean c'mon once a man murders a house full of people does he really deserve anything other bread, water and a cold, dark, damp room?

Answer 1

That's not the only thing. They also get free taxpayer-sponsored organ transplants in most states (even if they're in deathrow) if they ever need one. You know what else? They get bumped up the list! So, if you're a middle-class person who has a father who desperately needs an organ transplant, the rapist/murderer gets it before he does. f***ed up isn't it?

And not to mention, they're allowed to use gym equipment, hang out, eat free food, a bed and do all that stuff that some law-abiding citizens who live under the poverty line can't afford. They get all this stuff paid-for by YOUR tax money for killing an innocent shop owner or raping a 16-year-old highschool student or molesting an 11-year-old girl. And what do most of them get in the end? Freedom and a job (to give them a 2nd chance).

Sounds nice doesn't it? Wrong! I think it was just this month or around the last week of November when a man convicted of manslaughter was "given a second chance" to work as a door-to-door salesman and ended up robbing, raping and murdering a woman around her late 20s.

So why does this come as a shock to people? I mean, chances are, most people reading this right now are nothing more than criminal-loving sanctimonious hypocrites. I understand that some of you are delusional enough to believe that no man should take the life of another person (no matter what), but at what cost? Not all of us believe in "higher power" and not all of us believe that we should let criminals loose or give them special treatment in exchange of innocent people's lives and natural rights. Why not stop and think about the families of the victims and how they feel about what's going on? That the killer of their child or brother is enjoying a good life? All that tax money being wasted on these low-grade animals could be used to help out law-abiding citizens who need it the most. Hell, I'm a working student and it frustrates me that the money they take out from my paycheck goes to these people. I'm not saying they should give me back my money; I'm just saying they should give it to people who actually deserve it.

Answer 2

I think the idea is that our penal system is - in theory - intended to rehabilitate. The majority of people in prison should be given an opportunity to become better educated and learn a trade so that when they leave prison they are able to be a functional part of society rather than learn to be a better criminal or find that they are unable to support themselves and end up back where they were - committing more crimes.

I am not for throwing people out like garbage and granted, sometimes it is not easy to stand behind that when you are talking about someone who has done crap like hurt kids or killed people... but once we start picking and choosing where does it end? Additionally, with more and more people being discovered that they were wrongfully prosecuted due to DNA evidence - many on death row - then you better damn skippy be 110% certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that person is guilty, cause what if it was you who found themselves in that position and were forced to live like an animal for years on end - knowing you were innocent.

Answer 3

I am not against the death penalty, but I think it is the easy way out, they should be locked up for life! But then again prisons provide to many comforts. They should be in solitary confinement for life! I love how we send our most dangerous people to prison and they go in and work out with the gym equipment and come out bigger then they were before they went in, which could make them even more dangerous.
Maybe they can let the CIA come and practice their interrogation techniques on some of these cold blooded killers once a week.

Answer 4

Absolutely not!
Murderers deserve complete isolation and only a small piece of food to keep them alive! It completely depends on the crime they've commited. I mean you think of child rapists. They do what they do and get Life imprisonment, but what you don't know is that LIFE in prison is so cosy now a days! Some prisoners prefer prison life to their real ones because it's so comforting.
I know a man who wanted to go back to Jail after he was released!!! He only commited assault but he loved Prison funnily enough. He said they play pool etc every day and watch telly. I was gobsmacked.

The whole world needs toughening up a little!

Answer 5

I think the prison system is failing. If sentence a person to prison he should be rehabilitated to do something with his life once he is released from prison. If a prisoner is given a live sentence without mercy why is he still allowed to live. All that person is going to do is make life harder for other prisoners and the guards.

Answer 6

I'm torn on this topic. My cousin is in jail (and has been for the past 14 year) and keeps getting denied parole even tho' he's gone from a maximum security to now a 'camp cupcake'. While he was in there, he was able to get a college degree... all on the tax payers dime.

So, while I am grateful that he's been educated and that he's preparing himself for when he gets out, it's hard in that I had to pay my own way through college, and didn't get any help from the tax payers.

I think that it's important to note that my cousin didn't kill anyone, yet rec'd 2 life sentences for a first time offense. He was 19 at the time of the crime.

Answer 7

i think in a lot of cases jail and the lack of contact with real world things like education, and things that can improve a persons values ,can cause people to really turn out worse than they were. and proper mental health care is a must because if a person goes around killing people the is an underlying problem. right ?what we fail to realize we are making the monsters worse in the jails we throw them in the learn how to be better criminals

Answer 8

i think the death penalty should be mandated for all 50 states....however, the death penalty is not an effect deterrent to crime. a prisoner can sit on death row for 20+years, milking tax payers and exhausting appeals. in my opinion, i feel this should be for premeditated murders only. i have been on both sides of this issue, i had a family member murdered and i had a family member commit a murder. look at the person you love the most and imagine him or her gone in an instant due to a heinous crime! what a waste! we tax payer then have to support these scums! only a small number of innocent people are on death row or already executed. that is life. there are more truly guilty convicts rightfully on death row.

Answer 9

Probaby not, I always have a hard time with these prison questions though because I know there are a great number of innocent people in prison and that makes it complicated.

Answer 10

Death.

More than serving sentences.. I strongly believe that intentional or deprived, premeditated homicide (and other awful crimes like rape, kidnapping, torture, arson, high speed reckless accidents causing injury etc., and treason... should be met with swift elimination from society -- for their lack of care, concern for others). Punishment never "fits the crime" when the criminal can live -- and people are dead, maimed, disfigured, burned or live in fear. Youth, to me, is NOT an excuse either... if teens use bring/weapons, guns, knives they are aware of what they are doing... and should be gone. ASAP.

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