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Originally Posted by Sultana
Exactly. Death Row is not in any way intended as a place of rehabilitation, it's a holding tank.
I am greatly saddened by the fact that prison - yes, supposed to be a place of rehab --is absolutely not doing *anything whatsofreaking ever* to rehab offenders. I understand it's a place of punishment as well, but punish offenders by making them contribute to society somehow, in unpleasant, manual-labor, whatever type ways. Locking them up and letting them rot is a complete waste, and accomplishes less than nothing. I do think America needs a wide-scale prison reform, and I can't imagine what in the world could bring that to pass. 
I used to be all for the death penalty, but my views on that, like on many things I saw in black and white in my youth, is changing. |
Rehab was an experiment of 19th century America (its where we get the name penitentiary, as in doing penance) it has failed so far. I'm all for punishment modeling again, though if you wanted to use them as a form of slave labor I have no problems with that.
There is a time in ones life where the values of society can be instilled. I think few people are just geneticly 'bad' (though with some violent types I think this is true), but the problem is that by the time you get to prison many are beyond that stage. At this point we just lock them up so they can't hurt anyone else, and in some cases, kill them.