We need to bring Exile back. That and death sentances federally.
It seems USA is hell bent on turning into the very thing it once despised...
It is largely the poor and uneducated people who go to prison.
They don't just "go to prison", that demographic commits crimes that send them to prison.
And can't pay for lawyers to get them off.
And the other demographics commit crimes that don't end up with the justice system^ sending them to prison. They're often the same crime.
^ Crimes don't do anything, of course. It's the people in charge who decide who goes to prison.
Exile to where? Alaska?
Not the worst idea ever: it's large, inhospitable and the climate is not especially conducive to layabouts (although the long winter darkness would probably be well-correlated to depression and violence).
We could try mars. We just send more and more in batches with resources. Until they start dying off in too large a quantity.
Hey, if it worked for the Americas and Australia.
There would be a perverse irony in Trump sending American murderers and rapists to Mexico.
You get to pick. Then we drop you off with a helicopter.
Re:If Prisoners Ran Prisons
by paulddraper on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:45PM
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Worse: Delaware
Rarely any job skills to speak of.
Often very little in the way of education or resources to improve.
So the end result 80-90% of the time is to resort to the familiar crowd and routine.