Who would stop building prisons, build more facilities for the mentally ill, and stop imprisoning petty crime?

Mentally ill should not be in prisons per se. Other institutions should be available for those people.





For those who are just plain criminals and not mentally ill, there do need to be forms of alternative punishment to relieve the burden on prisons.





And not only does the burden on prisons (and our wallets) need to be addressed, but restitution to victims needs to be addressed.





Take for example a person who commits cheque fraud: That person needs not to be locked away, but made to work and repay what they have stolen.





Jails need to house criminals that are a vicious threat to society (rapists, murderers, molesters, armed robbers, etc). Non-violent crime needs to be addressed by labour programmes or service to the community/victim, where the criminal is punished by doing something constructive for the society he wronged. Not only is this better morally for the criminal, but it is less of a drain on the taxpayer.





And although many will disagree with me, if it were up to me I would institute corporal punishment. Sometimes a ';spank'; or two in front of an entire community is a great deterrant...and a relatively cheap one for taxpayers.Who would stop building prisons, build more facilities for the mentally ill, and stop imprisoning petty crime?
it will be not enough anyway!!!Who would stop building prisons, build more facilities for the mentally ill, and stop imprisoning petty crime?
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This is a great question. The prisons are full of mentally ill...a lot of very low IQ people are in prison due to the fact they have very low reasoning skills. They can be talked into anything by any fast talking con man that comes along and many times take the fall for it and the con man walks away free as a bird.


I have a son that was in prison for DWI and he said it was so sad to see some of these prisoner's that in fact belong in a mentally ill facility and here they were. He said they would get the heck beat out of them because they could not figure out or were not smart enough to just be a loner and do the time and keep their mouth shut.


You talk to any warden of a prison and he will tell you 50% of the incarcerated belong in a mental facility. How terribly sad for these people, they should be getting help instead of being throw in with people that can and do hurt them. So, yes you are right on building facility's for the mentally ill.


As far as petty crimes go, well, usually you get a few chances on petty and then the judge gets sick of it and figures your a hard learner. So its off to prison, maybe that will teach you something. Some petty crimes may be nothing to one person but can cause someone else a lot of heartache.
when you say mentally ill, are you including those with diseases such as alcoholism and addiction? If so, then stop the prison sprawl, and start helping those who need it.
One who is wise enough to legalize soft drugs, support and extend the death penalty, and had a degree in psychology. We don't have anyone like that.
Not I. Criminals belong in jail. What good are laws that go uninforced? Kinda the same as useless U.N. resolutions, huh?





Oh wait, we should build more facilities for the mentally ill. Liberalism is a mental disorder and all of those poor people need somewhere to go.
We need more prisons, because there is more violent crime. Yes, we need more faclilities for the mentally ill.





And no, why should we stop imprisoning for petty crimes? Should we reward them? No crime should go unpunished, no matter what it is.

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