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To: RC one

I can’t think of anything more threatening to freedom than adding a profit motive to incarceration. That’s what Stalin and Hitler did.

They should do make-work. Yes - it costs society more that way. But it’s worth it.


9 posted on 05/31/2011 11:25:25 PM PDT by I Shall Endure
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To: I Shall Endure
Bankruptcy and/or releasing criminals back into society because of overcrowding laws seems more threatening to me. I have no problem putting criminals to work. It makes sense, especially in hard economic times like this. Your argument sounds like the kind of liberal whining I'd expect to see on democratic underground frankly. America has an overabundance of low life criminals that have been sucking off the taxpayer teat for far too long and it's way past time to change this. Our crime rate has stayed low through these harsh economic times because we have rounded up the majority of the criminals. Once we start releasing them because justice has become too expensive, we are on our way back to the crime rates of the 70s/80s and I don't want to see that happen because that sounds more threatening to my liberty frankly.
10 posted on 06/01/2011 12:11:19 AM PDT by RC one (DO NOT RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT!)
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To: I Shall Endure

It’s interesting that we call China’s unpaid use of prisoners for all sorts of jobs “slave labor” but ignore the similarities to our forcing of prisoners to work on all sorts of manufacturing and agricultural jobs.

Why is one ‘slave labor’ and the other ‘justified punishment?”


16 posted on 06/01/2011 9:30:02 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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