Yeah this is concerning.
Posted by aconnor105
Yeah this is concerning.
Posted by aconnor105
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No more releasing criminals because the state refused to build prisons.
Excellent idea!
What’s concerning about it? Send hard-core criminals to a hard-core prison. If you don’t want to go to an El Salvadorian prison, don’t rape or murder anyone. Easy.
Back in the day, new prisons were referred to as “pork-barrel politics”. We built a mega-prison in a small town. Now, everybody and their unemployed cousin can get a job. All the suppliers of food, material; all the businesses and services around would flourish. And the politician who got the prison is guaranteed reelection.
Then we got the private prisons and the lobbyists and stopped calling it pork barrel politics. Now we had judges giving people sentences for no reason to supply the private prisons with customers. One former judge getting these bribes was just pardoned by Biden. He sentenced a teenage girl to prison for a facebook post. Prison got 10s of thousands of taxpayer dollars to imprison her.
These prsions, either pork-barrel politics or private need to be filled. And America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Ice Cube and other rappers said that gangster rap was created and promoted by the same people who got rich off the prisons. The CIA imported coke, created crack and then the government made mandatory sentencing. $300-400k for each person busted with crack goes into the pockets of the people running the prisons.
I can see the worry of using this kind of prison. But it also removes the incentive fueling these corrupt politics and policies. Its great for that one small town, but the whole state is paying and they are creating criminals to fill them. We need to find a way to stop doing that.
Not really concerning at all, just.. don’t commit a serious crime..??
This is the same unhinged mob mentality that gave us the war on terror. Gulf of America is the new freedom fries, but now it’s Abu Ghraib for our own people.
For younger people who wonder how things like torture, civilian massacres, military attacks on the press, and Guantanamo Bay happened during the war on terror, it was same “daddy hands the punishment out to the others” mob mentality you are seeing today.
Everything was justified by saying terrorists don’t have rights. Tons of innocent people got caught up in it, but it was too late before anyone cared to stop it.