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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Sentence are not long enough in many cases.
You are right- at least there should be no one on death row- they should all be in he..
Thank privatized prisons for that.
Were not talking about that. People serving life, or many, many years in prison for weed, and other non violent, and white collar crimes (tax evasion) is unacceptable
Have you been paying attention to the news. Most criminals caught and make the news have long criminal histories. Maybe they are not long enough to protect the law abiding citizens
Too bad! If the sentences are too long, then, let’s shorten them by more executions!
… is this another government research poll, where the ones polled are already in jail?
SO ???
Ok Nadejda Rozanova i want to help you with you world concept. 1st world contry means its a dmocratic capitalist nation. 2nd world means its a socialist communist nation. 3rd world means there not aligned with these concepts and 4th world is a reverence of indigenous type of life style. Now that were caught up Russia is a 2nd world country cause of their civil structure. It has nothing to do with status or wealth.
Now that we have that out of the way id like to mention this is no longer the cold war era and would like to invite you to look as their statice now days vs back then. You may be surprised.