What's on Your Mind

[ChadCoxRox]

@ChadCoxRox Not quite following you on that...

It's a subject I'm at odds with... Yes, people who do bad shit should be dealt with but what good does it do to lock someone up for 10 years...20 years and so on. Almost all places I have ever worked at simply will not hire anyone who has ever been convicted of a felony... Doesn't matter what it is, why, how long ago...won't even look at your application beyond that. I don't see anything correctional of holding someone prisoner. If the idea is that we're supposed to "fix" these people that's probably not how you do it. Now, keeping these people out of society, well we in the US do a good job at that...and to be clear some people need to be kept out of society and some people just can't be fixed.

I remember watching some documentary or 60 minutes about how other countries deal with people who commit crimes, like murder and so forth and how they deal with them, rehabilitate them and so on. It is completely different in some European countries. Of course, much of the prison system in the US is privatized and for profit.

I think your very last sentence begins to scratch the surface of what I meant so you follow better than you give yourself credit! Albeit, only scratching the surface. Regardless of what to do about dealing with crime effectively, the prison system in the context of your post has it's clear intent toward capitalist success. SO much of the system can easily put on a show of all the innovation and/or the tried and true success they have with programming and inmate care, and I assert that above the front-line level of service the prison system (I'm talking top level and mostly government and private business do not truly give one rat's ass above the money.