Prisoner for life

Monday, July 21st 2008

Twenty to life

It is very common for a person who has committed a serious crime to do time. It is the punishment of the goverment to either send someone to prison or sentence them to death by electrocution or lethal injection. More times than not, no death penalty is issued. This leaves us with numerous prisoners living off of taxpayers money. California spends around $10 Billion every year on prisons and accomodations. Apparently, this is not a big deal to most people. It could be that $10 Billion is chump change to the Government.

Prisoners working in the field

But then again you need to think what $10 Billion could do for you - buy an island! So, let's take a look into the topic of prison and the life of a prisoner. Just how bad is it?

What a life it is for a murderer or rapist that receive three full meals a day, free education, daily excersise, work for money to purchase goods and lay around in their cell watching television! The average American cannot afford a full kitchen, personal teachers and much less a full gym with basketball court. We cook our own breakfast. Yet we continue to pay for the lives of perverts, liars and killers while we ourselves cannot afford to fuel our cars.

A prison is a group of convicted felons. Eventually, this centralized group will learn the trades of other inmates. Soon, they will be masters of every kind of bad there is. It is bound to rub off on anyone. With so much time on one's hands in a house of convicts, plans will be made and schemes will be pulled without error or witness.

If and when an inmate is released, say 20 years after sentencing, will be sent out into a new world not able to get a job, unaware of current lifestyle and will ultimately find the way back to the big house. The world is too rough on all people so think about what it would be like for a prisoner.

So, why should we continue to support the hand that deceives us? The hand that kills us? Let them work for their stay. Make going to prison unbearable so that one will stay far from it!

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Posted by scott at 12:53PM in politics
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Posted by Henry Martin on 2008-12-11 12:27:36
You raise some good issues, Scott. Too bad no one has commented. On prisons, I think we should go to the Bible for guidance in sentencing. None violent offenders should not be in prison. Retribution is the way for them. Four times the amount for theft, but payment in kind otherwise.

For violent offenders, like punishment would be ideal. However, to have them electronically tagged and in the workforce -- doing hard labor that illegal immigrants are forced to do for example -- might just be the answer. They could go home at the end of the day, paying their rent, paying for groceries like everyone else, but being tracked every inch of the way! A painful shock could be added to dissuade them from going into forbidden areas that would increase their evil ways. Again, no prison!

That leaves murderers to deal with. Well, with today's technology, clear and simple murder should be a done deal -- death by surgical decapitation! That is, a clean severance of the spinal cord, under sedation of course. And then, the organs could be donated to science for research, or, if by prior agreement, to save the lives of deserving recipients. Safeguards would have to be in place, of course, but I think it is workable.

Less clear cases, though, would be subject to retribution, working it out for the benefit of the victims. If a man is found guilty of manslaughter, for instance, the twenty year sentence would be working for the betterment of his victim's family. Free, but tagged, his work skills would be used to earn a living, the normal "taxes" going directly to the victim's family.

And so it goes. There are answers. And prison is not one of them.

Twenty to life

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