Prison Reform

[Mythbuster]

Hello my comrades,

Like most, if not all of you, I strongly support prison reforms and feel this should be amongst our top priorities.

| What I feel needs to be done |

Start treating them like humans
Give then some freedom
Train them so they can have a job


| Questions |

What are youu ideas of prison reform? For example, I feel there is a strong need to start giving the prisoners therapy instead of locking them up 23 hours a day and start trating them like humans!

What would we do to prisoners who are convicted of violent crimes (i.e. Charles Manson). Do we let them out in a few years or what?

How do we known if the prisoner has truly changed to make a life for the better?

What do we do with repeate offenders?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

We reform them instead of indefinitely locking them up.

However, when they are being treated they will have freedom and rights.

Many already locked up will have their cases reviewed. Many will be released. Those who aren't released will be given over to mental professionals to be treated within hospitals dedicated to their treatment.

[Mythbuster]

Thanks. Has any other nation's tried this?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Thanks. Has any other nation's tried this?

I am not sure, surely someone here will know if such an event has happened though.

[Optiow]

I thin for the worst kind of filth (mass murderers, serial killers etc.) hard labour should be employed, so that they will be doing productive work rather than being caged in a cell all day. But for the average person who has made a mistake, we need to help them rectify that and to help them have a better life through rehabilitation.

Some criminals can not be reformed, because some people are just born nasty. But for the majority, rehabilitation is the key rather than punishment.

Even for those doing hard labour though, there will be humane treatment. I am not talking about a gulag with people being whipped for insubordination and all that. I am just saying that for those who can never be reformed, they need to be doing work rather than wasting away their lives in a cell.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Some criminals can not be reformed, because some people are just born nasty.

I disagree.

It is society and bigotry that makes people nasty,not because they were born that way.

[alphshuffel]

Some time we think that criminals should be faced with cruelty. This is not right becasue they are human being, after all. They should be treated like humans. But there should also be a discrimination of Children and Women with other prisoners. For them, there should be other jails.

[PolskiLenin]

http://www.workerspower.net/california-inmates-take-to-hunger-strike-in-protest-of-despicable-conditions-of-incarceration

[eric922]

As long as we have a for profit prison system in this country things will always be this bad. Really?! Who the hell thinks "hey let's turn prisons over to private companies." Of course even the state prisons are terrible. There is so much wrong with them from the terrible living conditions to the fact that you pretty much have to join a gang to survive.

I have a new "we're number 1" chant. "We're number 1! we're number 1! at denying freedom"

[Mythbuster]

sadly, eric922 is correct. We are number 1 at denying freedom, which ought not be.

sadly, you do have to join a gang at surviving prison. Under my system, that won't happen.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

sadly, you do have to join a gang at surviving prison. Under my system, that won't happen.

What is your system?

[Madslatter]

Any non-authoritarian communist would strongly reform the prison system, with many of us hoping to abolish it altogether. For that matter, lots liberal types would put forth strong reforms of the prison system. For some reason they never seem vote for candidates that support that though.

[eyedrop]

This thread is quite recent and about an attempt at a cushioned prison system.


Norway's controversial 'cushy prison' experiment (http://www.revleft.com/vb/norways-controversial-cushy-t154518/index.html?t=154518&highlight=bastoy) Check it up.

[Love Happiness]

I'm not for reform. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement