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Well, do you get books? I think books can get you a long way. The prison system we have around the world stimulates creating "professional" criminals by placin

Well, do you get books? I think books can get you a long way. The prison system we have around the world stimulates creating "professional" criminals by placing criminals among themselves. If we to break this cycle, we should get everyone a prison cell without inmates but with a window and books they can read.

yardie 13y ago
Why even bother with books and solitary. Just flash freeze them like in Demolition Man. The prison system doesn't stimulate anyone. Crimes are primarily committed because of motive, opportunity, and/or mental illness. Poverty is a great motivator. If you're an ex-convict your opportunity to get a respectable job drops precipitously, to be a drug dealer requires no prior experience and no background check. I'm not concerned about the prison system. They are the means to the end. What does bother me is the US justice system. They convict more people than any other country on the planet. Prison can't be a deterrent if you have overzealous prosecutors searching for me people to convict.
- guard-of-terra 13y ago
  This is pretty US-centered point of view, I invite you to look upon it from distance.
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  - yardie 13y ago
    Poverty is an overwhelming contributing factor to crime and thus prisons. So, while my views are mainly focused on the US justice system in what other countries does this not apply?
    - guard-of-terra 13y ago
      USA does not have an unique incidence of poverty but it does have an unique incidence of prisoners.
vacri 13y ago
If you do get books, you'll get them from the prison library, which isn't going to be well-stocked and up-to-date. I've known a few ardent readers in my time and live with one - she reads with breakfast, when commuting to and fro, before dinner, after dinner, in bed... but even she couldn't consider a life that was nothing but reading books (particularly from a highly-limited library). And she loves reading. Not everyone does. And for those who don't have an expansive vocabulary, what do you do when you read a word you don't understand in one of these books?

yardie 13y ago

Why even bother with books and solitary. Just flash freeze them like in Demolition Man. The prison system doesn't stimulate anyone. Crimes are primarily committed because of motive, opportunity, and/or mental illness. Poverty is a great motivator. If you're an ex-convict your opportunity to get a respectable job drops precipitously, to be a drug dealer requires no prior experience and no background check. I'm not concerned about the prison system. They are the means to the end. What does bother me is the US justice system. They convict more people than any other country on the planet. Prison can't be a deterrent if you have overzealous prosecutors searching for me people to convict.

guard-of-terra 13y ago
This is pretty US-centered point of view, I invite you to look upon it from distance.
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- yardie 13y ago
  Poverty is an overwhelming contributing factor to crime and thus prisons. So, while my views are mainly focused on the US justice system in what other countries does this not apply?
  - guard-of-terra 13y ago
    USA does not have an unique incidence of poverty but it does have an unique incidence of prisoners.

vacri 13y ago

If you do get books, you'll get them from the prison library, which isn't going to be well-stocked and up-to-date. I've known a few ardent readers in my time and live with one - she reads with breakfast, when commuting to and fro, before dinner, after dinner, in bed... but even she couldn't consider a life that was nothing but reading books (particularly from a highly-limited library). And she loves reading. Not everyone does. And for those who don't have an expansive vocabulary, what do you do when you read a word you don't understand in one of these books?