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Originally Posted by Mutt
life imprisonement isn't a deterrent either.
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Right.
Nor should society have to pay the tab of $40k + a year per inmate to warehouse crack heads, petty thieves, and so on.
Have there been mistakes? Sure. Just like our so-called 'democracy', it isn't perfect. But I'm all for the firing squad, public hangings, or simply shipping all these people off to a prison island.
We have plenty of territory around the globe they use for missle tests. Put them there. Otherwise hard labor for those who are doing life.
As for anyone who took a life (we are not talking manslaughter), they should be barbecued as soon as their appeals run out.
It makes me sick to think the tax payer is footing the tab for warehousing a lot of these people who are addicts. They go in an addict, or check fraud and come out hardened criminals.
Also all of the mentally ill who are being put, and left in the system because there is no where else to put them.
The prison system need to be overhauled. Those who do murder need to be fried up. Those who are no violent offenders need to be in a minimum, or reformed type of system.
Same for the addicts.
The mentally ill need to be out of the system all together.
The answer is not more prisons.
