The Official Prison Discussion Thread

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What are your moral views on locking people up for so many years. Does it stop them? Does it protect society? Is it good, is it bad? Is it just an adult version of "Time out"? Is there an alternative solution?

Yeah, I have a lot of questions about prison, and I think it's a kinda stupid method. But what do you guys think?

I think as long as people ar ein prison they can't harm people outside prison. I dig that. Doesn't need to be the horrible, inhumane kind of prisons you see in US movies, though....

Here in AZ, prison is officially for punishment only. No showing them the right way, learning, or any of that crap. So an "adult's time out" pretty much describes it.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I think as long as people ar ein prison they can't harm people outside prison. I dig that. Doesn't need to be the horrible, inhumane kind of prisons you see in US movies, though....

i think it's good for the big players i.e. serial killers, murderers, rapists and all that yuky stuff that people generally frown on.
But for the common man with no history it should be community service for small things like parking tickets or speeding fines.

Originally posted by lord xyz
But what about innocent people in prison?

In theory there should be none....

Originally posted by Bardock42
In theory there should be none....

Originally posted by lord xyz
But in reality, there are. There are inocent people on Death Row for christ sake!

Oh well...

Locking them up will teach them a lesson.But I favor the chair if they had cause a murder.But that is just me.jm

im against the death penalty

Any reasons why?jm

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
Any reasons why?jm

yeh. its wrong

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
Locking them up will teach them a lesson.But I favor the chair if they had cause a murder.But that is just me.jm

Prison was traditionally never considered to be a punishment. It was marely a 'storage' for accused until their sentence.

It was only recently that we decided that somehow imprisoning people was a good or productive thing.
I really do not see it as being either.

Originally posted by lord xyz
Yeah, it's not like people have commited crimes after they've been let out of prison. Or when people are killed in the chair, it's not like someone else will follow in their footsteps, or will have similar opinions and views. Jesus Christ.

So, what's your solution?

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Prison was traditionally never considered to be a punishment. It was marely a 'storage' for accused until their sentence.

It was only recently that we decided that somehow imprisoning people was a good or productive thing.
I really do not see it as being either.

I think prisons are good because without them there wouldn't be shows like 'Prison Break'.

Or would there....

de-de-de-deeeeee-de-de-de-deeeeeeeeeeee...

Originally posted by Bardock42
So, what's your solution?

Originally posted by lord xyz
Make em, work, or go to school, shit like that. Y'know that community service stuff, but on a larger scale. People commit crimes because they've nothing else better to do, if they work, they have no time to commit crimes.

So, they rape your baby sister and then you let them clean toilets in a kindergarden?

Originally posted by Bardock42
So, they rape your baby sister and then you let them clean toilets in a kindergarden?

Actually, the percentage of people who are as such is very small in prisons compared to those who commit petty crimes..

Drug users, who should be in hospital and rehab, not a prison. Poor and uneducated people is the highest percentage of people in prisons.