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I disagree. You can tell a lot about the human condition by the way they treat their lowest common denominator. It's why I got into prison health - the 'comforts of home' is a laughable comment. Prison isn't terribly challenging (and prisoners say this, just keep your nose clean) but it isn't particularly home-like either. A lot of the things that get taken away from prisons (like television) actually CAUSE more crime because the criminals become bored and destructive, like children. The reason I took a particulart interest in prison diets is because I found they were feeding prisoners things that were proven to cause an increase in crime rate.
All these things people want to take away from criminals (some who have done MINOR crimes) are the things that give them a higher chance of reformation. Unless we want to shut them away for every day and pay 200k a year in taxes each, we're going to have to work on reformation. Created bored obese criminals and putting them in a room to learn off each other for five years and then sending them into the world where nobody will give the a job because of their record... will only cause more crime. We can agree on that much, I'm sure.
I agree with the hanging tree comment...I had to grow up in the era after John Wayne Gacy was caught, and he lived less than 10 miles from my house. He was given 15 years of confinement away from the rest of the prison population and WAY too much time to appeal his death sentence, while everyone outside had to fear for their kids and wonder if he had any accomplices still circulating. How are you NOT responsible for 30-odd human beings buried under your house??? Then we had good ol' Jeff Dahmer, not too terribly far away, who was never given a death sentence because the state of Wisconsin doesn't do that. His fellow prisoners, of course, saw things differently. And of course in the same area we have whoever murdered the Schussler-Peterson boys; it has been speculated loosely that Gacy did it as his first offense but no one will ever know the whole truth, so the public at large still has much to fear because of these cases. I think this human condition we have now is that we need to treat our lowest common denominator like the reeking trash it is and dispose of it, publicly and promptly, and maybe give SOME chance at reform to the one-time offenders or small-timers. Our tax dollars already pay for nursery school once, and I see no reason we should pay for it twice, however.
You are 100% right! Noone HAS to commit a crime to survive..period. Thats just a lame excuse for being a lazy scum bag...
