domestic terrorist — ssu
Hence Americans can be in amazement of other prison systems — ssu
So how then China or India have far less prisoners than the US? — ssu
Fyodor Dostoevsky once said: "The degree of a civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." — The Questioning Bookworm
US incarcerations rates will drop if there's a real effort to stop incarcerating non-violent offenders and legalizing drug use...
...I did see, by the way, that Oregon decriminalized heroin, cocaine, and meth, reducing the sentence to the equivalent of a traffic ticket. — Hanover
Citizenship does matter. Ask any illegal immigrant.Difference between a "domestic terrorist" and "foreign combatant" = raising your hand and saying whatever to a 10 second pledge (that really means nothing to pretty much any religion [the world is temporal and without everlasting meaning or consequence]). So. Yeah. — Outlander
Where were you thinking Felonia should be? Depending on one's politics, Manhattan? Georgia? Los Angeles? Puerto Rico? North Dakota? Isle Royale (its in Lake Superior--(206 square miles--much bigger than Manhattan and unoccupied, except by wolves and moose)? Aleutian Islands? Or maybe Russia would rent us a couple of gulags in Siberia. — Bitter Crank
but we should spend less money on upkeep and hiring guards and more money on mental health specialists, educators, etc. for prisons, in my humble opinion. Also, we should not be using prisoners for free labor. Slavery ring a bell? Prisoners are cut off from the world as it is, most of them can't vote, and in some places, they are used for free/slave-like labor. This seems to be a problem too. I feel like there would be pushback more from individuals who aren't even in prison. — The Questioning Bookworm
Can budgeting be properly executed to allocate money more toward rehab rather than the way things are?
As far as assertions go, it definitely passes the sniff test. I'm of a moral persuasion that only tolerates incarceration as a form of intervention/rehabilitation. Prisons in America are far from places of reform; they're places of suffering we use to extract blood and sweat as a proxy for justice, and which are obviously meant to serve as deterrents to would be criminals.
Given that America's strategy of crime prevention through threat is failing so despicably, there's no good defence for the on-going torture and destruction of millions of people. Imagine being incarcerated for drug possession (addiction), and then being extorted and murdered in prison by the racist gangs that thrive in its system of neglect and deprivation...
That's justice in America... — VagabondSpectre
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