WTF's up with the U.S. prison system??

[morethanpretty]

What Griff said, our judicial system has enough issues as it is. Once you turn it profitable? So much more incentives to keep people in or send people to jail. Cut costs in any way to increase profit, ect. Human rights? Not where there is a profit to be made! I think FH's and plt's conversation goes a long way to show that our current system does not work. How many inmates get out of prison with no-to little valuables, no-to little work skill, and nowhere to live? Much less a means of getting a job. Getting hired as an ex-con? Maybe, but its not gonna pay as well as crime probably will. These are issues that need to be addressed. 1) We need to reduce the number of people going into prisons by getting rid of the 3strikes rule (I think its been shown not to be effective anyway), and decriminalizing marijuana. Increasing funding for education and after school programs (especially in poorer areas), increase access to birth control and sex education hopefully decreasing teenage and unplanned pregnancies by people who are not prepared for children.
2) Turn the prison system into more of a rehabilitation system rather than a punishment system. I think our recidivism rates show that punishment is not working.
3) Improve re-entry programs for cons returning to the world so its not such a huge shock to them, they have support, and also so that better tabs can be kept on them.

Those are just some of my humble ideas at least.

Oh, but none of the rehabilitation stuff goes for rapists...punish them, punish them for forever by hitting them with big dildos and hanging them upside down for hours at a time, don't let them eat anything but dog shit and chocolate ex-lax!

Uhm....sorry.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

Oh, but none of the rehabilitation stuff goes for rapists...punish them, punish them for forever by hitting them with big dildos and hanging them upside down for hours at a time, don't let them eat anything but dog shit and chocolate ex-lax!

This is a touchy subject but I've read that rehabilitation for rapists could be one of the most effective. Rape is inherently sexist and can only happens from someone that has no respect for that woman and her choices. And, I don't remember the exact number, like 85%+ of convicted rapists in this study have never had a strong woman figure in their life (dad beat their mom, mom left them, died, etc) so they never viewed women as people you respect. So the theory was that if you introduced a strong respectable woman figure in these men's life, they would learn to at least respect one woman and the chances of them repeating the crime would drastically decrease. I think the results were mostly positive but I haven't been able to find the study again.

Although in general, in order for rehabilitation to be effective, it would need to attack the root causes of the crime. This means individual attention from some specialist, which can be extremely expensive and non-standardized. I would like to the see this eventually implemented but I don't see it happening.