We're not interested in rehabilitation in the US. We have parasites here who lobby against the relaxation of drug laws solely because they make money from the p

We're not interested in rehabilitation in the US. We have parasites here who lobby against the relaxation of drug laws solely because they make money from the prison population. We elect presidents with crackhead sons that are responsible for passing unbelievably draconian drug laws. Of course allowing phone calls with family keeps connections with family secure, and of course secure connections with family reduces recidivism. This is the biggest non-discovery since a right-wing economist discovered that people who went bankrupt due to medical debt weren't all irresponsible people, and decided to go into politics as a champion of the working class, trading on that "scholarship." When will people stop discovering the poor and the weak, and stop voting or actively lobbying against them? Prison phone calls have been a government-granted exploitation racket since forever, but somehow they're still legal. Our progressives hire an unofficial credit card lobbyist to be president, and shed crocodile tears for black people who are poorer than they were in 1995. edit: here's my proposal. Let's not isolate prisoners from society at all. Let's allow reporters in every prison, give them facilities within the building to work, and let them talk to whoever, whenever, and report whatever. Let's take the opportunity that we have gained from nabbing an out of control person to bring them back into society, rather than push them out farther. Let them vote. Let them do remote work to pay off their victims, the state, and to support their families. Prison should be where we put people in order to protect society, not a torture chamber.