06-29-2021, 05:45 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=vision63]
The room, board and gas fees are just straight theft.
They should also be exempt from taxes since prison isn't a "service" for them and are unable to participate in general society.
I like the work aspects though. Anything that can be rehabilitative, encourage self-sufficiency, pride and potentially reduce recidivism is a good thing. Worth the investment.
Agree. Why do American companies object so hard to paying decent wages? It's almost weird.
And our whole prison thing needs to be tossed out. Start over.
While not necessarily tossing it out, it's evolving. Biden has ordered Justice to terminate all private prison contracts. CA Gov Newsom signed AB32 to shut down private prisons. A side-effect of that is the loss of thousands of minorities their jobs.
States still get to choose how their state imprisons criminals, so it's going to take a long time. Everybody wants instant results so our solutions are generally not very well thought out. When our side gets ousted from power, they just undo what we've done. Like we're undoing what they've done.
Don't get me wrong, we need prisons. There are a lot of people out there looking for easy, quick and slick money. We haven't even scratched the surface of how the elderly is swindled broadly every day.