[Attention Surplus Disorder]

As usual, a thinking disconnect is responsible for the hoier-than-thou conclusion.

Putting any one or any ten offenders in prison is not supposed to reduce the crime rate. It may. It may not. It might be the case that the police catch the easiest to catch criminals who commit fewer crimes “each”.

The purpose of putting a criminal in prison is to prevent that criminal from committing more crimes and to protect the property and safety of the people who are already committed to financing the facility, the prison, where the criminal is to be housed. And that is or should be the start and end of the story.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There is a direct correlation between higher prison occupancy and lower crime rates.

[mass55th]

The biggest problem is plea bargaining. Criminals rarely, if ever, do the time for the actual crime they committed. I spent 25 years working in uniform in NY State prisons. Incarceration is supposed to be part of the punishment, but there’s no punishment when you can murder someone, plead guilty to a lesser charge, and be out in a few years. And while you’re doing your reduced time, you can hang with your homies, get packages from home, money, and visits, and whatever else you can extort from some weak convict.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

He’s convinced me. Capital punishment should be required for a lot more crimes. It’s terrible to keep so many people in prison when we could just bury them.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

He’s convinced me. Capital punishment should be required for a lot more crimes. It’s terrible to keep so many people in prison when we could just bury them.

[Obbiee]

It is the users who should be put in jail. When congress made the law to punish sellers but let users go free the war on drugs was finished. Everyone knows the law of supply and demand, but it must have slipped through the crack on this one.

[GailA]

Recidivism
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=17

Parole & Probation
https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/ppvsp91.txt

Rape/incest stats https://www.rainn.org/statistics

Black on black Murder
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls#disablemobile

Doctors kill 2,450% more Americans than all gun-related deaths combined
http://www.infowars.com/doctors-kill-2450-more-americans-than-all-gun-related-deaths-combined/

Third leading cause of deaths Medical Malpractice
http://www.medicalmalpracticelawyer.center/2014/05/new-study-confirms-440000-deat.html