Kates Law

[Dill]

(07-01-2017, 07:10 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: They could make prison more grueling, make them work to offset their cost to society.  Simply removing them from society, housing them, and allowing them to socialize with other convicts isn't working.  Prison should be hard, not just for the weak who are at the mercy of the stronger inmates, but in general.  Prison should be a place that people truly don't want to go to.

I don't think many people truly want to go to prison. The exceptions would be people who have been there a long time and don't know how to manage their freedom and can't get work on the outside.

I think that making prison more "grueling" hasn't been working. What about rehabilitation? Teach prisoners a vocation so they will have a better chance of surviving on the outside. Wouldn't that reduce recidivism? 

Keeping people in prison is costly. 10 years ago costs averaged about 35 thousand dollars per head. And we lead the world in prison population with over two million now.