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Originally Posted by stonegrody
Would people want to pay extra taxes to do something about this? My guess is that most people probably don't care.
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Right on the money.
The cold reality is that the prison system in general is sorely underfunded and overcrowded. Overcrowding leads to many things, including increased aggression levels in prisoners. As far as underfunding is considered, the prisons cannot hire as many corrections officers as they really need. When corrections officers are able to come across a situation such as a prisoner being raped, they are severely limited as to what they are able to do for both legal and personal protection reasons.
Unfortunately, our "rehabilitative" prison system is far from that, due to a lack of funding and lack of proven rehabilitative methods. There are lots of theories on what *should* be effective in decreasing recidivism, but unfortunately they have not really worked. Because of these problems along with many others, our prison system is not much more than a holding facility to keep convicted criminals out of sight and out of mind.