Your society might contain a dystopian puritanical-prison-revenge-industrial-complex.

Now they go free and can do enything they want.

Many of these "non-violent" offenders have blood on their hands. Many of the drug addicts you feel are not a threat to society often times become dealers to support their habits and end up pushing drugs on kids to continue the cycle of death. Take a look at all of the other crime that goes along with it. My cousin was killed by a "non-violent" drunk with four prior DUIs. It is better when a number of these individuals are in prison and not around their kids. I know of one of the early releases that the governor put back on the streets and the guy is worthless. He is constantly getting high around his kids, is a terrible father, is back using and selling drugs and it is only a short time before he will find his way back into prison. Hopefully his wife and kids don't get dragged in with him or caught in the crossfire of a drug deal or drug bust gone awry.

Heck, many of these police shootings that BLM and others protest stem from people's erratic behavior while using drugs and alcohol (George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, etc.), and association with those involved in the drug trade (Breonna Taylor). These individuals pose a threat to their communities and those around them. If you feel that drug addicts and DUI offenders are not a threat, then move to Oregon or Portugal.

That's too bad. It feels better to waste our money and lock these people up than it does to provide them with treatment.

Mass incarceration in the US is simply a structural adjustment program for the post-industrial era. When manufacturing jobs were shipped over seas in the 70s and 80s, hundreds of thousands of inner city men in places like Detroit, Chicago, Philly, etc. were left permanently unemployed and their children had no prospects for employment in manufacturing. The war on drugs became a pretext to turn this segment of the population into a profit center by engaging in mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders and privatizing prisons.

The US has an incarnation rate 6 times greater than the UK and Canada. It is number 1 in the world by a wide margin, topping a long list of third world countries. You must work in law enforcement if you don’t think that is a broken system.

Prisons can get paid 50-70k a year per inmate, it is big business with a strong lobby.

joed1rtty2 wrote:

Many of the drug addicts you feel are not a threat to society often times become dealers to support their habits and end up pushing drugs on kids to continue the cycle of death. Take a look at all of the other crime that goes along with it. My cousin was killed by a "non-violent" drunk with four prior DUIs. It is better when a number of these individuals are in prison and not around their kids.

Addiction is a fairly basic thing to treat with proper healthcare and a supportive environment. Neither of those things are adequately provided in jails, which exacerbate the problem. Nobody functions in society after prison, it completely destroys them.

Precious Roy wrote:

Mass incarceration in the US is simply a structural adjustment program for the post-industrial era. When manufacturing jobs were shipped over seas in the 70s and 80s, hundreds of thousands of inner city men in places like Detroit, Chicago, Philly, etc. were left permanently unemployed and their children had no prospects for employment in manufacturing. The war on drugs became a pretext to turn this segment of the population into a profit center by engaging in mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders and privatizing prisons.

And the Welfare state started in the 60's. Thanks Democrats.

Isn't it great to back to the old days of imperialist/globalist 'liberal' governance??? Thank gawd we got that orange man out and put the politician from the 70's who voted for all you posted, in office. Can't have orange man bringing those jobs back and passing anymore prison reform bills. Gotta keep those jobless criminals on the Democrat Plantation.

I'm more of a fan of the Singapore style of punishment. If the cost of violating the law is high enough, people won't break the law. Can you imagine what America would look like if there were no drugs, no gangs selling drugs, no heroin addicts begging for change or breaking into your car, etc. ? But, no, we choose to tolerate drugs, protest for criminals instead of the victims of crime, etc. We are a sick society.

Dude..They get put in prison for committing crimes. They don't just wake up one morning and they're in jail..lol

Take away the crime stats of our 2 largest minority groups and our crime rate is comparable to that of a European country.

I dont know if this is good.

The guys that are criminals are now lucky of the coronavirus because they could escape earlier and what are the chances that he will not break the rules again, and maybe even wors this time because we all know how jails can creat a man full of revenge that is going to freedom and most of the time loosed everything that he had and there are very low cases were jail changed and made a better person, and not even jail, but the fear not to get in there. You can check any person that is sitting in jail and their status with services like https://www.inmate-search.online/alabama

Jail is appropriate punishment for criminal behavior and protects society from criminals while they are locked up.

Do you think the Capitol rioters should be locked up?