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Originally posted by mo42
I think the American jail system is broken. These people are not going to get better, they're going to get worse. We need to stop this prison violence and violation, and rehabilitate these people. Otherwise, like people have said, they'll just get out on the street and commit crimes until they get caught again.
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If you can find the key to rehabilitating prisoners you will be a very rich person. Different methods have been tried for years and years and the sucess rate has been pitiful.
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As for how to stop it, the prisoners need to be supervised better. Maybe hire more guards, add more cameras. something. It's not acceptable for this to happen.
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Sure, just raise taxes. Why should all my hard work go to feed my family when I could use more of my paycheck to keep criminals better supervised.
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And maybe more psychotherapy and job training. I dunno, I'd have to read studies on effectiveness of different techniques.
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The death penalty is very effective. Or could be with a few revisions to a few laws. Why keep a monster alive for so long when all he's ever going to do is make life tough on other people (guards/prisoners sentenced to less-than-life terms).
I don't mean to pick on mo42 specifically, but there are a lot of problems in this country and in the rest of the world. How criminals are treated in prison is WAY down on my list of things to fix.