How can America solve its criminal system spending?
I propose something simple
If you get commited for a crime that is rape or murder you will be sentenced to death.
All other offenses if convicted more than once will get the death penalty
That would save us money on life sentences and people would be more detered from doing crime because of severe punishment.
What do you think Sup Forums?
Neuter everyone that is a repeat offender.
I'm a fan of removal of their human rights and subjected to scientific experiments for the good of all.
>How can America solve its criminal system
Investigate judges more.
Depends on the crime, but the best option would be prison labor, and penal battalions, get your sentence commuted fighting in foreign wars. Expendable soldiers highly motivated to fight hard for a chance at freedom with no record.
If prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, them the only logical conclusion would be to replace the life sentence with the death sentence.
Legalize drugs, that would highly reduce costs.
Also get rid of mandatory sentencing, three strikes, and focus on rehabilitation over punishment.
These have good elements.
I'd propose a lolbertarian style of national penal code; the only offenses incurring penalties across all 50 states are violations of the non-aggression principle.
For offenses like petty theft, assault, vandalism, mild breach of contract etc, the penalty is forced labour on public works projects, most notably transportation infrastructure. If the individual is able yet unwilling to perform this penal labour, he/she is publicly hanged.
If the individual is unable to perform physical labour, clerical or other duties are imposed on them. Again, if able but unwilling to work, they are hanged.
Other more heinous violations like murder, rape, grand larceny, grand theft auto, severe breach of contract (large dollar amount), public hanging is the only penalty.
Extremely few laws, but extremely harsh penalty for breaking those laws.
I've come to believe that all violent criminals should be sentenced to high risk military service in their own separate division.
>Forced to undergo marine-style training for 5-10 years in service
>Introduce them to concepts of honor, sacrifice, service, dignity etc. etc.
>Educate them and teach them to read if they can't already
>Give poverty babies and illiterate street hooligans a higher purpose in life, a reason to live instead of wasting away in a prison block
>Forge comradery among their fellow convicts in jail instead of raping and shanking each other
>Might even go as far as to break up racial based gangs, skin heads, mexicans and blacks and put them into mixed platoons
>Make them work together to survive
>Force them into a military brotherhood that is based on being an American above all else
>Give it a year or two and they'll be closer than siblings after being through hell and back together if they survive
>Society might not view this military branch as honorable, ethical or respectable like the normal branches
>Still, they know who they are and what they do as an elite, but dirty task force
>They do the dangerous, high risk jobs on the ground that nobody else wants to
>These are people with nothing to lose, because they had nothing their entire lives until now
Prison costs millions of tax payer dollars to essentially feed and clothe people that in turn are prevented from giving anything to society in the hopes that they don't murder us. 2.2million people are sitting around doing nothing. All bodies in any society should be utilized to a certain extent possible. Prison should work to REFORM criminals. Not make them worse like the current system. If they are truly mental and beyond hope that's different, but should be a small minority of the current prison population. At the end of the day humans are humans, and should be expected to contribute to civilization in one form or another. If violence is what they're good at, take advantage of it.
>If you get commited for a crime that is rape or murder you will be sentenced to death
Go watch the movie The Life Of David Gale to understand why this can't happen. It's a great movie and I just don't feel like typing it all.
You have zero future as a politician.
For sure, if you've already been to prison and you commit a felony you get hanged.
Once people cross certain lines it just becomes far too hard to rehabilitate them. It's like dogs on a farm, if they ever eat a chicken you just have to shoot them because it becomes more or less impossible to train them to not eat anymore.
>for a chance at freedom with no record.
But you'll always have your arrest record following you around for the rest of your life. Even if it's expunged, it'll will forever be on the internet and the FBI databases.
Welcome to the electronic plantation...
Anything 15 years or more = death penalty as well as recurring offenders
Legalize drugs, and use the tax money ot educate the poor.
Reform sentencing guidelines so that non-violent schmucks who aren't a serious threat to the peace don't get years locked away. Give them community service instead.
With drug offenders, have them sent to rehab/hospitals if they're addicted.
Change prison conditions from those of an intentional living hell to a modest but livable reformatory. This doesn't require a lot of money. Monks and other similar figures live modestly but in adequate conditions. Food could be simple, like brown rice and some vegetables with maybe some meat and fruit, and living quarters should be spartan but not barren. There should be access to a decent sized library for those who have been observed quiet enough.
There should be mandatory participation in some form of occupational tasks with a firm schedule. These should be things like agriculture (to feed the prison population), assembly line and factory work (sell the finished products for income, allow some organized bargaining with the profits), and learning a trade or skill like metalworking. Maybe have them work on infrastructure outside the prison as well.
The occupants of the prisons should be given at the very least a modicum of respect for their dignity and basic humanity. One of the biggest flaws of "tough on crime" policies and punishment in general is that dehumanization will never, ever stop the core problem. If you treat people like animals, they'll act like animals. If you treat them like human beings that can change, they'll act like human beings that will change.
Forgot to mention: make criminal records non-available to the public, and don't make it intentionally difficult for ex-inmates to get jobs, get social services, and re-integrate into society.
>criminal records non-available to the public
Why?
Would you hire a thief to clean your home?
I agree with user here with one condition:
>Your sentence is completely dependent on your ability to pay society back for what you took.
If you want to be a sack of shit and do nothing in a cell 24 hours a day while getting free meals and a cot then more time will get tacked on to your sentence.
Easy. Install cameras in every cell. You commit a crime in prison, you're dead.
Their release would presumably be on the condition that they've demonstrated capability of behaving in a non-destructive manner. If they haven't reformed themselves, they wouldn't be released. There might be some sort of halfway point where the individual could get a job at a place where the employers are privately informed of his or her status.
That's why I suggested the mandate of occupational labor.
Was thinking about harsher punishments for ridiculously obvious malicious/immoral crimes today and wondered where the motivation against cruel and unusual punishment came from. Per wikipedia's article on the 8th amendement to the US constitution:
>The [cruel and unusual punishment] provision was largely inspired by the case in England of Titus Oates who, after the ascension of King James II in 1685, was tried for multiple acts of perjury which had caused many executions of people whom Oates had wrongly accused. Oates was sentenced to imprisonment including an annual ordeal of being taken out for two days pillory plus one day of whipping while tied to a moving cart. The Oates case eventually became a topic of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.[4] The punishment of Oates involved ordinary penalties collectively imposed in a barbaric, excessive and bizarre manner.[5] The reason why the judges in Oates' perjury case were not allowed to impose the death penalty (unlike in the cases of those whom Oates had falsely accused) may be because such a punishment would have deterred even honest witnesses from testifying in later cases.[6]
So cucked. So fucking cucked.
I did time. However, my opinion against crime is pretty hard line.
>repeat offenders should be put in work camps
>end programs aimed at minorities
>Stop paying inmates $3 a day
>Make inmates pay rent
>Be harder on repeat offenders
>Be harder on contraband offenses
>reintroduce the death penalty
>Be harsh for second offenses
>Make jobs available for ex-cons
>Give record suspensions for people that sorted their shit out
What did you do leaf? How bad are Canadian Jails?
its because they make it impossible to gt a job or a house or apartment
to make people offend again, and feed the slave labor system
Deport all the niggers.
death penalty for smoking weed
>Le kill all blacks instead of reforming them
>Le dude weed
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Deport the black ones to Africa and the Hispanic ones to Mexico
>I plan on teaching the fish to walk
>you can train a common chimp to be a bonobo
>How to fix Criminals
Kill all blacks including the good ones and the crime rate will drop guaranteed
Or send them off to an Island prison colony
pls no
3 strikes rule on communities. If on 3 separate cases in a year a violent criminal from a neighborhood commits a violent crime, the entire neighborhood gets punished, prefarably deportation to a shithole country
how about you fix the fucking socioeconomic conditions of your shit country, how about you fix the fucking poor public education system, how about you remove welfare dependency and invest in infrastructure to employ them?
what the fuck is the context of this .webm?