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.

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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