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It's fair for taxpayers to pay for it because they're also the voters who voted for the system. Most people actually want more horrible prisons, they want solit
by Nutmog 11y ago
It's fair for taxpayers to pay for it because they're also the voters who voted for the system. Most people actually want more horrible prisons, they want solitary confinement, they want prisoners to kill each other, they want long sentences. That's why it happens. So isn't it quite reasonable to push the cost back onto those people when they get sued?
- chillwaves 11y agoTo me a more accurate statement would be, per your response, that the system is failing at multiple levels.
- superuser2 11y agoThe system isn't failing - it's working exactly how the people who control it (the voting public) want it to. Out of sight, out of mind, cheap. The only way the prison system could be "failing" in the eyes of the electorate is if there were a lot of escapes, and there aren't.
- jMyles 11y ago> Most people actually want more horrible prisons, they want solitary confinement, they want prisoners to kill each other, they want long sentences. Source?
- coldcode 11y agoIf this is true we should simply be killing them until the population is reasonable. I find it hard to imagine people supporting such a horror. Then again in Soviet Russia no one objected to mass killing of people in Siberian prisons either. /s
- abalashov 11y agoThen again in Soviet Russia no one objected to mass killing of people in Siberian prisons either. Soviet Russian here -- that's just ... false.