There's a major scumbag in my family who is usually in prison for committing stupid crimes. He's a total deadbeat and the world would be better off without him. What really makes me angry is that my tax dollars are being spent to feed him when he's in prison, which again, is often.
My plan is that instead of taking my hard earned money to subsidize his worthless life, prisons simply stop providing food.
It's not as heartless as it sounds. People would still be allowed to bring food to prisoners. If you have someone in your life who is willing to bring you fast food every day, they can do that, but the government doesn't owe you a meal, and you won't get any unless someone pays for it and brings it to you. And for the prisoners that no one loves, like the guy in my family, even they won't starve. Religious organisations are bound to pop up to feed them and proselytize to them. But no one has to pay to feed them if they don't want to.
Lucas Campbell
I think starving your prisoners falls under "cruel and unusual"
Dylan Johnson
This actually isn't a bad idea. Or some sort of prison service where you work for food.
James Miller
>get framed >go to prison >wait for court date >lawyer says your case is solid >starve while in prison for something you never did
Jose Green
>badass hells angel takes all the good >no matter how much food you bring, your loved one starves to death
Genius. You fucking retard
Carter Parker
I think if we were actually pragmatic with our punishents it would improve everything. >rapists and pedophiles get castrated >burglars/robbers get their legs amputated >murderers get their arms amputated Etc.
Brandon Williams
the money to feed prisoners is a trivial sum. its almost fucking nothing compared to the prison, the guards, the guns, the security system, etc. medical care far outweighs the cost of food.
if you want to spend less on prisoners, just have less prisoners.
Xavier Parker
Why do we want amputees begging on the street. Jesus...
Hunter Anderson
You forget. In almost all prisons, inmates are required to work.
Angel Cooper
So feeding POWs is a waste of tax money too
Cooper Powell
This sort of happens where you do manual labor and you get like some sort of prison credits, your family can buy extra credits as well. You get some for good behaviour as well I think. You can spend these on snacks and other stuff.
Dylan Butler
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Owen Cox
Wait until violent inmates get hungry and desperate. Escapes and the crime sprees that follow will skyrocket.
Brayden Gray
Rapists castrated is fair enough. But the other stuff we'll just end up with limbless beggars.
Carson Gray
Yeah but the other guys can also not feed your men so its best that an unspoken agreement stands where you treat POWs nice and they do the same.
Brandon Jenkins
uh, "your" tax dollars will not even pay for the services you use during your life.
Nolan Anderson
>he wants to starve his family member on Christmas Reality check user, you're the scumbag. Loyalty is an important character trait, and you seem to be severely lacking in loyalty. I don't care if my brother/cousin/uncle was a rapist or whatever, family is family. You're a disgrace, and not fit to call yourself white (if you even are white genetically). Hang yourself
Jason Smith
Rapists and pedos getting castrated (or really anything more severe than what we see now) will make them more desperate in their crimes, turning a rape into a murder. The consequences already put in place don't deter rape, why would stricter ones do the trick?
Alexander Carter
>this idiot thinks family is more important than morality
Nathan Kelly
He married into the family. We don't want him.
Nathaniel Lewis
The only sensible thing to do with criminals is deport them.
Putting them in cages for arbitrarily long periods of time is fucking retarded and I don't understand why people support it.
>criminal commits crime >lets reward him with a sub-par NEET lifestyle
Jeremiah Hernandez
it is, you soulless piece of shit.
Xavier Stewart
Make them farm. Organic farm. Nothing to do but farm manually. Plus gives them the ability to create something of their own.
Jose Moore
We need a superjail.
Lucas Walker
Sounds very Republican to me, much like kick a homeless day.
Colton Lewis
>too much of my taxes go to support prisoners That's your fault for not being smart enough to make millions, to the point where you can affort to pay extra to support others.
This is capitalism right? Anyone can become a millionaire. You're just not applying yourself enough.
Jaxon Jones
this is how it works in many countries.
Joseph Reyes
>That's your fault for not being smart enough to make millions, to the point where you can affort to pay extra to support others. Right it's not a problem with privatized prisons and the lobbyists they hire.
Ryder Carter
In some african countries, 'mine not included' if you dont have family to send you food you will starve and die.
I actually spoke to a Zambian guy who spent four years in prison for poaching and he said he went 6 months just eating mangos. He got terribly ill.
Nathan Wilson
This tbqf
Xavier Davis
Yes because everyone in prison is guilt and they are never any people who are framed or mistaken for criminals and deserve to be starved to death before they can be proven innocent.Also a better system is the one used in Zimbabwe,prisoners are allocated land and given resources to grow good and raunch cattle and chicken if there stay is longer than 9 months,if it's less they are given food by the state because they are not fucking savages like OP
Connor Johnson
>genetically Family > morals. You're a piece of shit and no better than that father who sided with the prosecution against his underage son on false rape charges, both of you are traitors.
Jack Thompson
>repeat offenders automatically executed
Problem solved.
Jaxson Flores
You're probably the biggest idiot to ever post on this board ever.
Caleb Carter
cruel and unusual is such a bullshit term. who decides what's cruel and unusual?
fuck off hippie.
Caleb Brooks
After watching Lockup, it seems more often that the prison food is very basic and cheap already, and most inmates survive purely on buying shit from the canteen such as ramen noodles and chips.
Daniel Jones
t. redcoat
Noah Perez
kek he still thinks his tax dollars go anywhere but some .gov faggots pocket.
Josiah Anderson
it is not unusual if you do it all the time
Cooper Peterson
>>rapists and pedophiles get castrated Why do you think raping a child is a different crime from raping an adult?
Kevin Russell
OP, how would starving prisoners solve the problem of recidivism?
They would be rendered incapable of even the possibility of using their time to improve their situation in life and escape the cycle.
American prison needs to work on incentivising convicts to get their shit together and turn away from crime instead of placing them in environment centered around gangs and raping each other then turn them loose on civilized society.
Samuel Brooks
>Implying food is the only cost >Implying prisoners don't get fed shit
Not sure what's more stupid, you or your idea .. Food cost is nothing m8 in the grand scheme of prisons
Jayden Jenkins
So lets say us has 319 mill people who pay taxes.
among them, your contribution to the total tax sum is 0.000000000314%.... say your relative eats a 30 dollar meal daily. You literally only fucking pay 9.42 x 10^-8 $ dollars you fuck.. and for what? For an unlucky person who didnt have a choice whether has born dumb, stupid, or criminal.
the state only asks you for this laughable amount to continue sustaining YOUR OWN FAMILY and you complain? Fuck off C:
Jose Morris
Aren't american prisons handled by private corporations?
Jason Carter
Why not have the lifers duel it out in an arena for our entertainment pleasure? It'd cut costs because not all would survive and it'd give us some value back for our tax money spent on them.
Luis Jackson
>319 million >Literally every single person in the US pays taxes
Levi Davis
Just because the tax money is spread out amongst what the government spends it in doesn't change the amount each person is taxed. >only a few pennies of your thousands in taxes goes to that one thing it's not even that much! Fuck off retard
Dominic Mitchell
>Gangs and prisoners start blackmailing and extorting normal people to feed their prison population >crime rates grow exponentially
Carson Barnes
why not just shoot the prisoners that are on death row?
Evan Gray
We should just ship them to Australia like our ancestors did.
Bentley Edwards
but then how will mega cororations make lots of money from slave labour?
Christopher Jackson
>0.000000000314% Wrong. You divded 1 by 319 mil, when you should have divided 100. Make that 0.000000314%
>319 mill WRONG. According to Google Almighty, there are 122 million taxpayers in the USA, so you might want to triple that percentage of yours. Make that 0,000000819%
>For an unlucky person WROOOOONG! There is not ONE person in prison, there are 2.220.300. So make that 1,8184257%
You are paying nearly 2% of your taxes to feed criminals. This doesn't account for their bath, clothing, leisure and whatnot.
But hey, with those math skills, it's no wonder your debt surpasses 170% of your GDP.
Dominic Wilson
Nah just make them grow thier own food. The prison govener could sell off half of what they grow which would make the prison profitable like modern fuidalism
Dylan Rivera
>rapists and pedophiles get castrated Being "tough" on rape and pedophilia is such a cuckservative cliche.
Nathaniel Green
bread and water wasn't cruel and unusual at the time it was written.
bread and fucking water
Christopher Johnson
ROASTED
Argie with the bantz today.
Good idea, OP. Might make double digit IQ's think twice before committing to a life of crime.
Jackson White
Yeah, roasted cell-mates would become a fine delicacy in times of hunger.
Dylan Sanchez
>born dumb, stupid, or criminal.
Grayson Martin
Do you go to prison while waiting trial or just jail?
Ryan Butler
Even if what you is say is true (it isnt, you economically retarded greek), I dont owe them a penny, you clueluess faggot.
Luis Watson
That's why we have the right to bear arms dumbass
Gavin Richardson
food is one of the cheapest costs of maintaining a prison
constant security, maintence, and payroll cost far more then a 10 cent dinner