Often in libertarian mediums of discussion, the prison industrial complex and its implications on future generations is talked about. While it is true that the war on drugs greatly contributes to the mass incarceration here in the states, placing blame solely on poor drug policy isn’t helping the discussion that much.
In reality, there isn’t one clear cut reason as to why the criminal justice system is the way it is today. It’s a combination of poor policy decisions made over the course of the last half of the 20th century. One of the policies contributing to the amount of Americans behind bars is our embarrassingly long prison sentences.
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I wish more people understood this. Don’t they even realize they are footing the bill for this extravagant waste of tax dollars?
Absolutely if it’s beyond the shadow of a doubt that someone has committed premeditated murder or child rape.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!!
Firing squad is a lot cheaper and more humane.
Not for true criminals Obama sets them free and Illegals so they can do what they do so well
Because there is money to be made by keeping people in prison. If we started executing instead of life without parole, 1, we would not be out the expense of caring for them for life and 2, people would quit doing some of the stuff they do.
go look inside of a Russian prison…our felons have it easy here in the states.
Which part of the rest of the World would you like to be like??
If you look at some of the worlds prisons there very harsh and no one wants to go there. america’s prisons are country clubs so no one sweats it to go there! Make America’s prisons hard labor and harsh and watch the decline.
The only ones it embarr$#%&!@*es are the thugs and their families.