If we have to have prisons…then we should ensure that their stay there is safe, well-kept, and they are afforded only the necessities of life.

They should be put in a cell of their own, with a clean bed, toilet, a desk, get 3 square meals a day in their cell, access to books, no contact at all with other prisoners ( except from one cell to the next ), private yard/shower time, to work out, clean up, exercise outside their cell…

and little if anything else.

Most of the problems in prison are as a result of allowing the population to mix…in the yard, during meals, showers, etc…by not allowing them to mix you effectively reduce the problems, especially the safety risks to inmates and guards, by a substantial amount.

Simple fact…you can’t stab someone, rape someone, assault someone, etc if you are denied access to them. You can’t revolt, overpower guards, etc…easily…if it’s just you. And it would greatly reduce the drug, and disease problem.

I’m not talking isolation…just inaccessibility.

Prisons, if we must have them…should be ‘ safe ‘ environments…and the inmates should be ‘ well taken care of ‘…but they should not have TV’s, Radios, or any luxuries of any kind.

Necessities only.

Do you think putting a person into a 6×8 box for several years, to live among people who are considered the worst society has to offer, being told when to get up, when to go to bed, when to eat…etc…is humane?

OK, for the next three years I want you to move into the most violent neighborhood you can find…preferably in a neighborhood with a high rate of the worst kinds of crime, and gangs and drug dealers and pimps on every corner…and you must spend a few hours a day outside for exercise…but you may not, under any circumstances ever leave the neighborhood until your term is served.

Sound like something humane? Go for it, just give it a go and then report back in 3 years.

Women have been trying to reform men for centuries without much luck…prison does not reform anyone…the vast majority of inmates are repeat offenders.

I say kill em’ n’ let their own god sort it out…far more humane…just ask an animal shelter when they destroy an animal…that can no longer be kept because of it’s temperament…we don’t cage a dog for years and years…that would be cruel…so we kill them to avoid being cruel and inhumane.

We should do the same to people…if they are no longer fit to live among society then put them down…it’s the humane thing to do.

Prisons are an antiquated form of punishment , for all intent and purposes we’ve been using the same system for thousands of years…and aside from modernization and some human rights adjustments, not much has changed…

1. someone commits a crime
2. we lock them up
3. they stand trial
4. if convicted we lock them up again for a determined time
5. once they have completed that time we let them go
6. until they re-offended and we lock em’ up again

and we’ve been doing this since the first person was held against their will for committing an unsavory act upon another.

We have not, in all the centuries that have passed, found a better way to deal with those who are deemed unfit to live among the rest of us.

Prisons should be abolished entirely…anyone who commits a crime should either:

1. be killed
2. dealt with in alternative ways to prison

if someone is so heinous, so threatening, so predatorial, to society that he/she cannot be dealt with through means other than prison, we should just kill them…like a rabid dog…

and be done with it.

The prisons are full of people that shouldn’t even be there…the vast majority of them don’t even pose a significant threat to society…there should be valid solutions beyond what we presently have to deal with offenders.

Those who do pose a significant threat should ( IMO ) just be killed…but for the bleeding-hearts out there who want to keep them alive, at the very least locked away for good without any hope of ever getting back out.

Prison, if it must exist…again, if it must exist ( and personally I don’t think it does ) …should be reserved for only those who pose a significant risk to society…significant enough that it would be irresponsible to ever let them go.

A person asked in a forum I attend…are people cowards…to which I replied:

Most people aren’t cowards…they’re passive…

that’s why 100 people will walk by someone getting the crap beat out of them in an alley and one person might stop and help the guy…

people generally, don’t want to get involved…they’re passive…

this is why we admire heroes…because they are the exception rather than the rule.

Most people do not join the military thinking they will ever go to war and have to kill or be killed…they join for other reasons such as a paid education, to get out of an economic crisis, etc…

sure some do join because they want to go kill something…but again, they’re the exception rather than the rule.

The vast majority of people are passive…they’re not heroes, and they’re not gung ho killers…

only about 1% of the population are aggressive, that’s the reason why bikers ( Hell Angels, Satan’s Choice, etc… ) wear the 1% on their jackets…because they belong to the 1% that will get in your face.

Are people cowards? No, not at all, but 99% of the population is passive.