Raise the Crime Rate (2012)

Re:Raise the Crime Rate (2012) by JoeAltmaier on Thursday September 11, 2014 @07:38AM (#8301964)

Problem is, prisons like all government institutions are controlled by fads and fears and money - Senators don't do anything until votes are at stake or campaigning dollars. So nothing happens for a long time, and then Bang some extreme measure is passed to show that they care or something.

We closed the mental institutions and released folks into the general population, and that didn't work very well. Closing the prisons would be worse, because some of the people in there actually mean to do us harm.

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Re:Raise the Crime Rate (2012) by angersock on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:12PM (#8303421)

Closing the prisons would be worse, because some of the people in there actually mean to do us harm.

This doesn't follow. Prisons are not equivalent to mental health institutions; there's a lot more at play there.

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Re:Raise the Crime Rate (2012) by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @09:58AM (#8324473)

After the mental health facilities were closed, they pretty much became the same thing.

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