the prisons are over run with criminals and serial offenders that cost the tax payer millions of pounds each year. How do you plan to combat that?
shareIs Herzog now in charge of the world's justice system?
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How do you plan to combat them? Are you suggesting that ceasing killing a few dozen prisoners a year would worsen overpopulation? What's your answer? Kill more of them?
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Did you know it costs more money to kill someone than it does to keep them alive?
http://www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id=42
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost
In my opinion the best way to combat over crowding would be to change drug laws and invest in a better system of rehabilitation for minor crimes, especially crimes which lead people to become career criminals due to the fact they can't get a job because of there criminal records (how to do this of course is the challenge.)
You took the words right out of my mouth. We need to create a system that actually rehabilitates the non-violent offenders, because sending them to prison just destroys any chance they have to rebuild their lives later. If they have healthy/supportive people in their lives before going "inside", they usually lose them by the time they are released...they come out unable to find jobs...thus unable to support their kids if they have any...often unable to find safe housing (low income housing often states that no one who has been convicted of a drug crime or violent crime can't live there)...and yet we expect them to come out and "reintegrate" into mainstream culture? With so many barriers, many former offenders are almost forced to commit another crime just to survive. How does that help keep the community safe??
I'm all for putting the truly dangerous people in prison. But the first time and nonviolent offenders? let's use some jail-alternative programs. Not only do they do a better job rehabilitating the people, but they actually cost the taxpayers LESS MONEY.
And yes, I think it's so silly that people actually think that the death penalty is a cost-effective solution. It costs SO much more to go through that process than it would to keep an offender alive in prison for the rest of her/his life without the possibility of parole. And that's only the first of my objections to the death penalty.
1. Legalize drugs or at the very least loosen the drug laws considerably.
2. Put heavier taxes on your filthy rich - not only would a fraction of their pocket money lower the appalling poverty rates, it could also take care of the "lifers". Of whom there won`t be that many to begin with.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
3. Reform the 3 strikes law
4. Limit sentences on non violent offenders
Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up!