Prison Reform

15 Replies to “Prison Reform”

1. If anything remotely resembling that were tried in America … there would be hundreds of thousands of lawsuits filed claiming unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment”.

2. “If anything remotely resembling that were tried in America … there would be hundreds of thousands of lawsuits filed claiming unconstitutional “cruel and unusual punishment”.”

   Oh, for sure there would be. It just makes too much sense for left-wingers to embrace. Rehabilitation? Teaching them a trade?

   SACRILEGE! BLASPHEMY!

   The victim class must be coddled and protected at all costs.

3. I think its great.
   Giving men an honorable purpose, dignity and self-worth.
   The self-sufficient system is a bonus although it might conflict with the free market on the outside, in the grand scheme I’d bet its worth it.

   Next up lets see Canada do Welfare Mother Baby Machines.

4. And none of them are on Medicare.

5. Am I right in saying that many years ago, when car license plates were changed annually, that those plates were made in prisons?

6. Everyone who is sentenced to prison should have a 40 hour per week real job. End of story. Prisons have mostly gotten rid of licence plates, prison farms, road gangs, etc. The biggest part of criminals tend to be non-violent and could be producing something with minimum supervision. And every young prisoner who expects parole should have to obtain a high school diploma unless they are too stupid. Prisons should be about training people to be better citizens.

   1. I don’t agree.
      Some people have been put away and they should never see sunlight nor hear rainfall ever again.

      As for those who deserve rehab, it certainly needs to be done right.

      1. “As for those who deserve rehab, it certainly needs to be done right.”

         It does, and it looks like they have figured in out in El Salvador. Just a shame that we couldn’t do the same here.

      2. I agree with you both. Rehab … SERIOUS rehab for those upon whom it will “take” … but true antisocial monsters need to be permanently binned.

7. An odd thing about this video is the lack of tattoos on the inmates. Whenever you see images of the prisoners in El Salvador they are covered in tattoos. Are only non-gang members allowed to work to reduce their sentences or do we have some clever AI going on here?

   1. I believe the video stated non-gang members.

   2. @ 0.15 in the video, it’s stated that there are “over 48,000 inmates who are not gang members work to reduce their sentences”.

      I thought the hardcore gang members may be in for awhile longer, maybe until they’re deemed to not reoffend and that’ll be on them to show.

   3. The violent gang members would likely take too much supervision to give jobs to.

8. Retweeted this yesterday thinking it was an outstanding ad for prison reform here or the USA, but skimming through again I don’t see how this could happen here while they’re permitted to vote, and have the rights legislation available to them as regular people do. I think people do need to face decades in the big house before they’re willing to accept that what they’ve done is never going to be acceptable in society, and that the change is on them.

   The El Salvador Gov’t is an example of that mindset too. It was faced with a long slide into a failed state and urban warfare run rampant, while Canada, some areas of Europe, some areas of the USA previous to this admin, have administration which thinks they can have the changes necessary by offering a carrot instead of a stick. I think we’re well past the carrot working within the gangs community.

   They might apply similar rules to those who comment crimes for the jihad, as it seems as deeply imbedded.

   1. I bet if you offered it as an in-or-out program, many inmates would take it. Must be pretty boring in jail.