[auntyfemenist]

Actually, sending a 17 year old to jail for joyriding in mom's car is never a good idea. There are many possibilities to resolve this besides subjecting a 17 yr old to murderers, rapists and drug dealers.

People do this and fail to realize what kind of people their kid is thrown in with. This is not the right punishment for a young person who pissed you off by joyriding in your car. Jail is a place where your child can be beaten to death or raped. Everyone should always consider this before deciding that is the best punishment for their child. Jail is a no man's land full of societies worst.

I know a boy who went to the parish prison overnight after an arrest for stealing a pack of smokes. He was 17. Today, he is in a nursing home with a boot shaped dent in his head, unable to talk or feed himself. This sort of thing happens a lot.

[Vicomte13]

Why is jail a no-man's land?
Jail is watched by cops, guarded by cops.
They have cameras.


If we cannot control our prisons to the point that people are being routinely raped, murdered and crippled in there, then we had better stop sending people we're mad at for non-violent crimes (like drug sales) to prisons, and put more cops there until we've controlled the place.

As it is, if all of these reports are really true, we are effectively allowing the state to impose a sentence of exposure to rape, murder and crippling...illegal acts in the society...which the state won't take the steps to stop, in order to threaten the whole of society with the "consequences" of jail.

That's no good. If we cannot control the prisons, we need to stop sending non-violent offenders to prison and do something else with them.