Wacko Christian Lawyer has Prison Reform Ideas

[Jason]

http://ezinearticles.com/?Cure-Prison-Overcrowding-With-Corporal-Punishment&id=6008544 (corpral punishment)

http://ezinearticles.com/?Prison-Is-Worse-Than-Slavery&id=6381653 (Prison Worse than Antebellum Slavery)

http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=John_Gleissner (Plenty more articles here to study)

[Os Cangaceiros]

Corporal punishment in prisons is a retrograde practice. For example, it was abolished as a punishment for civilian prisoners in Russia during the 1860's. When you're advocating a return to a practice that was frowned upon as regressive as far back as the 19th century, that's pretty reactionary.

Prison reform within capitalism could easily be accomplished by a dramatic overhaul of laws that actually put people in prison. The authorities in many American prisons could stop the prisoner-on-prisoner abuse overnight if they wanted to, they just choose not to because they don't want a united prisoner body and possibly another Attica or Lucasville on their hands.

[Jason]

Well, he means well. Yes, prisons are horrible places and need much reform. In fact, his ideas for changing prisons from "prisons" to something like "re-education camps" or mental hospitals are very humanitarian.

However, people are being thrown in jail, because of un-just law enforcement. Why not just get rid of the un-just law enforcement. For instance, if a local surbabanite or Charlie Sheen does dope, then lock them up like the man from the ghetto.



The authorities in many American prisons could stop the prisoner-on-prisoner abuse overnight if they wanted to, they just choose not to because they don't want a united prisoner body and possibly another Attica or Lucasville on their hands.


But as you said, why not change the laws and use fair law enforcement.



Prison reform within capitalism could easily be accomplished by a dramatic overhaul of laws that actually put people in prison.


Perhaps they don't want to, because private prisons need more prisoners. However, the private prisons are not putting people to work as this author suggests. But just having prisoners creates profit for private prisons.

I think both the private and public prisons act as a sort of "control" mechanism on the black population.

If the author wants to implement his ideas for "legitamite prisoners" (ones that were convicted with un-biased law enforcement), then I see nothing with it. However, the corpral punishment and "for profit prison" part would be left out.