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Jim D Burns -> RE: Just Makes Me Mad... (9/4/2014 9:34:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: pontiouspilot
the problem is that the good old USA with it's enormous incarceration rates has created a large sub-culture of inmates
Blaming the prison system never leads to anything remotely addressing the issue at hand. Criminals are not created in prison. Sure they train, practice and get better at being criminals in prisons, but outside the walls is where they make the decision to go bad. It is society as a whole that breeds the scum we see in the world today.
The society we live in today is pretty much an unaccountable one, from the President on down to the lowly panhandler, the entire system is rigged to avoid holding anyone accountable for anything unless law enforcement goes through herculean efforts to catch the bad guys. The result is we see hundreds of thousands if not millions of young people making the life choice every year that a life of crime does in fact pay off and lead to early and easy riches.
If society was far more accountable and prison terms were served in full, there would be far fewer examples of scumbags who got away with it roaming the streets to impress young people into becoming scumbags. Then you’d see the numbers of dirt bags in the world begin to decline, but until that happens the prison system will be over-crowded far into the future.
The sad truth is even with the system full to bursting, the average criminal only serves about 20-40% of their sentence behind bars. Criminals laugh about how easy it is to do time, to them it’s a joke not a deterrent.
Jim
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