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[chessylady]

We the taxpayers are paying a price for the high incarceration rate. It costs more to imprison a drug addict than to get them help. Mentally ill people should not be in jail they should be getting help. Our answer is to just throw them in prison. We could be using the money for schools, infrastructure, affordable housing,, transportation systems. We need a revamp of the criminal justice system.

[terrier3]

On 2/22/2015 chessylady said: We the taxpayers are paying a price for the high incarceration rate. It costs more to imprison a drug addict than to get them help. Mentally ill people should not be in jail they should be getting help. Our answer is to just throw them in prison. We could be using the money for schools, infrastructure, affordable housing,, transportation systems. We need a revamp of the criminal justice system.

This is one subject that unites the far right and the far left.

Too bad the ones in the middle are so beholden to the lobbying and money they receive from for profit prison companies.

[terrier3]

On 2/22/2015 blahblahvampemerblah said:It's really because we're the only nation that will keep the worst offenders in jail. In Europe, murderers and rapists will likely be released, and they have the crime rates to prove it. In Britain, there's even a "duty to flee." If you hurt the criminal too much fighting back, you'll go to jail, too. The cost to society for housing these nuts is less than the property, physical and emotional costs. As for those jobs, if you're violent, or you're a thief, I wouldn't touch you with a 10-foot pole.

By any measure - they are MORE crimes and you are less safe in the USA than in Europe.

Where do you get your statistics from?????

[esmeraldagooch]

On 2/22/2015 croemer said:

On 2/22/2015 Marmalade said:

On 2/22/2015 di-mc said:

Prisons don't exist for the purpose of giving inmates a lifestyle that most of us work hard for. They exist for punishment for crimes committed.

Exactly! If they were more unpleasant maybe more people would fight harder to stay out of them instead of making a life of crime.

Amen sista!

Sherriff Joe, doesn't make them wear pink and live in tents for nothing.

[terrier3]

On 2/23/2015 esmeraldagooch said:

On 2/22/2015 croemer said:

On 2/22/2015 Marmalade said:

On 2/22/2015 di-mc said:

Prisons don't exist for the purpose of giving inmates a lifestyle that most of us work hard for. They exist for punishment for crimes committed.

Exactly! If they were more unpleasant maybe more people would fight harder to stay out of them instead of making a life of crime.

Amen sista!

Sherriff Joe, doesn't make them wear pink and live in tents for nothing.

That really stopped the woman who slaughtered her BF...didn't it?

She's been his "guest" for a long time now.

[Topaz Gem]

On 2/22/2015 chessylady said: We the taxpayers are paying a price for the high incarceration rate. It costs more to imprison a drug addict than to get them help. Mentally ill people should not be in jail they should be getting help. Our answer is to just throw them in prison. We could be using the money for schools, infrastructure, affordable housing,, transportation systems. We need a revamp of the criminal justice system.

True, but how else do we keep these addicts that commit criminal acts away from the public? Sure we can send them all to rehab, but are you aware of the recidivism rate for drug addicts? It's quite astounding that most of them relapse, even after many attempts at getting them clean. So that means that they're right back out there, committing heinous crimes at the expense of the innocent public.

[esmeraldagooch]

On 2/23/2015 terrier3 said:

On 2/23/2015 esmeraldagooch said:

On 2/22/2015 croemer said:

On 2/22/2015 Marmalade said:

On 2/22/2015 di-mc said:

Prisons don't exist for the purpose of giving inmates a lifestyle that most of us work hard for. They exist for punishment for crimes committed.

Exactly! If they were more unpleasant maybe more people would fight harder to stay out of them instead of making a life of crime.

Amen sista!

Sherriff Joe, doesn't make them wear pink and live in tents for nothing.

That really stopped the woman who slaughtered her BF...didn't it?

She's been his "guest" for a long time now.

Well, at least you know she is not living the high life while" sitting fur a spell" in his camp....

[PIT-HAG Melissa]

On 2/22/2015 KittyLouSoutenu said:

People who have money do not go go prison for minor crimes.

But poor people do.

So VERY sad but true....