Imprisoning people and the death penalty

We have more people in prison as a percentage of population than any other country on earth. We are also the only 1st world country that still thinks the death penalty works. We should be ashamed of this.

We keep putting more and more people in prison like the result is going to be different if we can just put enough of them in jail. Well, it hasn’t worked, it isn’t working now and it’s not going to work in the future. These stats are from 2003 but are still relevant and I recommend you go read the two articles. Felons and parole.

Now if you really think our system is working after reading that you should go do a search on percent of felons in the United States and read a few of those articles.

Lol, it is a way to provide tons of jobs for the rest of us however it’s not worth the cost. Now we want to start treating felons like they are child molestors. Sheesh, now because you got into a stupid bar fight they would take away all rights and priveleges.

Soon a major portion of the population will never be able to find a job. Like I said, more jobs for us but then we also have to pay more taxes to build more prisons to put more people in for committing one time or stupid crimes. Then we have to make new rules to make it easier to put them back in prison. That’s the way our system works.

Well, technically, that’s the way our system doesn’t work. If our system worked we wouldn’t have an ever increasing number of felons or prisons.

Now here’s a novel idea. Let’s quit putting people in prison for crimes that are really personal choice. Let’s stop putting people in prison for non violent crimes. The only people who should be in prison are thoose who are a physical danger to others. The rest are a minor annoyance. I mean, really, what difference does it make if someone has been in prison for an 1/8th ounce of pot. Kinda overkill for what should be a midemeanor ticket isn’t it.

We have lots of people in prison that should have just been fined 500 bucks for a gross misdemeanor and let go. However we won’t change our system because it works so well. Yeah, right.

Like Forrest said, “Stupid is as stupid does”.