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MailaK's picture

Due to overcrowding inmates,

Due to overcrowding inmates, the United States Supreme Court has ordered Calif. authorities to reduce severely over-crowded prison numbers. Governor Brown's administration reacted Tues, saying its plan to move some inmates to local jails will solve the problem. State legislators, however, block the funds needed to put that plan into effect. Here's a proof: Calif. Lawmakers stall plans to reduce prison crowding, newstype.com

WE WANT DOG BOY! WE WANT DOG

WE WANT DOG BOY! WE WANT DOG BOY! WE WANT DOG BOY! WE WANT DOG BOY!

Government is set up by

Government is set up by people to protect individual rights.

WRONG! Government has never protected individual rights its the exact opposite. Our founders wanted to keep in check for that reason.

Looks like socialism has

Looks like socialism has failed again!

No, Communism and Socialism

No, Communism and Socialism rule! LONG LIVE THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION!

Move to venezuela Belarus or

Move to venezuela Belarus or china if you think they rule then.

Gary Kleppe's picture

No, this has nothing to do

No, this has nothing to do with socialism. Are the means of economic production owned by the general public? No, they're owned by an ever-dwindling number of private corporations. Until this changes, we don't have socialism in the USA, no matter what a bunch of wingnut know-nothings want to think.

When it comes to deciding

When it comes to deciding for myself, I am one of the most anti-drug people on the planet. I don't believe in cough "medicine," and won't even take aspirin. Never been in any trouble, disturbance, don't smell funny, don't drive dangerously, etc, etc; I pretty much mind my own business. But in the past, I've had cops go out of their way to find excuses to search me and my vehicle; a few illegally. Some would go out of their way to run-up on my bumper and follow me for several miles, apparently waiting on some dirt to come back. Just a well maintained fully stock four-door family sedan. Hell, when a teenager, was stopped a few times riding my ten-speed through the backstreets on the way back home.

Through my life experiences and from my perspective, there is a *REAL* problem with the population make-up of the "nation of the free world's" prisons being what they are. Whether we deserve it or not, (take our current President for example,) we're automatically suspect of being criminal. Jim Crow never died, he simply morphed.

EASY SOLUTION: Abolish

EASY SOLUTION: Abolish prisons. Use biblical law. Punishments will be only restitution or execution. Theives and petty criminals property criminals ETC will be required to pay for damages, 3 times the amount for theft, 7 times the amount for destruction. If they can't pay, community service and labor.

Meanwhile rapists pedophiles murderers and kidnappers will be executed. Do it within a week instead of delaying and therby not serving justice by keeping them on death row all the time.

If the liberals succeed in getting capital punishment banned I suggest doing what England France and Russia used to do. Internal and external exile. The left wing Euro peons who want to welcome our felons with open arms can have them. otherwise we can herd them in Alaska or one of our far flung territories.

The onyl solution to ending prison crowding without raising crime and giving felons a free pass is to stop being politically correct and suck it in. Most of all, stop being merciful to evil people.

Gary Kleppe's picture

And if the person you

And if the person you executed later turns out to have been innocent? What do you do? Just say "Whoops, my bad"?

My own solutions:

(1) Put non-violent drug offenders into mandatory treatment, not prison. That'll clear out a huge chunk right there.

(2) Make sure everyone who wants a job has a job, and everyone with or without a job has access to basic needs like food and health care. When people don't need to steal to survive, fewer of them will steal.

(3) Lead by example. End the wars, and prosecute all torturers and other criminals in the current or former administrations. The government doesn't have a lot of moral authority to tell us to obey the law if its own people are blatantly disregarding it.

Plenty of innocent people

Plenty of innocent people die in jails. Whats the point?

(1) I agree

(2) Yea right. Then they will go from stealing televisions to embezelment. There is no excuse. The welfare state just subsidizes that crap. Its the job of religious charities to do that not government

(3)Lead by example. Better idea is get rid of the government

End the wars, and prosecute all torturers and other criminals in the current or former administrations.

Prosecute those who defend liberty from muslims socialists and others you mean.

If religious charities work,

If religious charities work, why did we we need welare? These people arent able to solve all our problems. It should be mostly up to the government to handle the poor.

"Its the job of religious

"Its the job of religious charities to do that not government"

Charities have been saying for years that they are overwhelmed with cases, and they would not be able to handle welfare cases that the government currently handles.

People like you need to wake up to reality before it's too late.

Thomas Paine wrote many

Thomas Paine wrote many years ago that we must strike at the root.
Government must lead by example. Government cruelty leads to cruel behavior among the lowest of humanity.

If the crime is victimless, (i.e. consensual behavior between individuals where none has a complaint) then repeal the law. Make the activity legal.

If someone wants treatment, let him seek it voluntarily and pay for it himself.

Prison does nothing for the imprisoned, but supposedly protects society at large from the imprisoned activities. That is all well and good, but many in prison are no threat to anyone.

Government is set up by people to protect individual rights. There are people who have violated laws that do nothing to protect those rights. These do no belong in prison at all. The U.S. has one of the highest per capita imprisonment rates in the world. Land of the free? Not anymore.

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