Here's a thought
By Cruz
@Tierkreisze (1609)
Philippines
February 8, 2016 6:21am CST
I was just thinking, bad people go to prisons because they do bad things. Then, the people they do bad things to have to pay money to keep them there through tax. They have to stay alive and healthy until they finish their prison sentence or else the people they do bad things to would be mad. They are fed, clothed, and housed more than the poor people who live in the streets. But why won't the people the prisoners do bad things to would turn them into more socially productive beings?
Perhaps it would be better if they were made to farm food, not only for themselves but also for everyone else? Or make clothes for the poor who live in the streets?
Overall, I wish they could contribute something to society, not just sitting there in their cell, waiting for meals until they rot.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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8 Feb 16
I guess it depends where they are in prison and why they are in prison, although I have never understood the sense of putting a kid guilty of selling some pot in the same cell with people guilty of rape and murder...
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
9 Feb 16
That too. Children can get influenced by worse prisoners and become more delinquent when they get out. Or perhaps cause more havoc in the prison.
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@cacay1 (84938)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
9 Feb 16
@karlmarxx That is so true.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
6 Jul 16
I agree with you. There are some programs in prisons where the detainees have to work. But, for non-violent crimes, I think that a person should have to pay back double for stealing something or for causing any sort of destruction of property of what they call "blue-collar" crime.
Read the 22nd chapter of Exodus. These were the conditions the LAW stated to compensate for theft and other losses. I think they should still be in force today.
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@Tierkreisze (1609)
• Philippines
6 Jul 16
Most of these are still in force (or at least in my country). For damage or loss of property, the person who is responsible still has to pay for the damaged item while doing jail sentence. If the person can not pay, then they may still be sent to jail, but it is up to the judge to tell how long. It might be double or even triple. This is better than having a person sold to slavery just because they were impoverished and had to steal to eat. If I remember right, it was my father who told me that modern laws (again, in my country) are based on laws of the bible.
But then again, the cycle goes around and the person still has to go to jail because they can't pay for the thing they stole. Imagine a beggar stealing a cake and then eating it. If they can't pay for what they stole, then what more for double? If you sold them to slavery, what could they do? They probably lived in the streets, depressed and hungry. You can't send them to war anymore as that is the job of soldiers. They are the... unwanted and unusable part of society, after all.
