We need prisons but the prison system as we know it could use some correcting.
Too often we send people to prison only to see them emerge years later worse than they were when we sent them there. Years of GenPop exposes them to the worst of humanity where they either must plumb new depths of depravity to survive and/or learn new depths of negative behavior. We too often wind up creating new monsters while trying to punish the ones we fear most.
I don’t know what the answer is. But, the current system is far, far from ideal,
Agree. And I would also decriminalize some drugs. If you want to do drugs, you should be free to poison your own body.
Prohibition did not work, and neither will the war on drugs, no matter how much money is spent.
That's because we don't really have prisons. We have "rehabilitation facilities". People are not punished for their crimes they are only sent to camp for a while.
Prisoners should NEVER have contact with other prisoners. They should never leave their cell until their sentence is served. Lock them up, lose the key. Slide food through a slot in the door.
No more prison riots. No more moslems recruitment. No more sexual acticity in the prisons. We could cut out prison staffs by 80 percent and still have far better security.
Of course we'd need to develop a backbone. Prisoner goes on a hunger strike (for example)? Let him starve. Slide the food in and remove it at the normal time. If he chooses not to eat, not our problem.
The only weakness to this is it relies on having a just government and we are far from that at the moment