Prison Inmates

[Zurtok Khan]

I've decided I know how to stop prison riots.  With guns.  Lots of guns.  When prisoners riot they should bring in the national guard and shoot the fuckers.

The same goes for people convicted of rape, child molestation, or anything like that.  Of course, in these cases their genitals should be put in a plastic shredder and then they should be shot 3 days later.

The Liberal Pussies in this county need to shut the fuck up about crime, they aren't doing anything good.

What, you think I'm being too harsh?  The punishment should fit the crime.

When we start actually punishing people for their crimes, they will think twice before being so heinous.

That is all.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I've decided I know how to stop prison riots.  With guns.  Lots of guns.  When prisoners riot they should bring in the national guard and shoot the fuckers.

The same goes for people convicted of rape, child molestation, or anything like that.  Of course, in these cases their genitals should be put in a plastic shredder and then they should be shot 3 days later.

The Liberal Pussies in this county need to shut the fuck up about crime, they aren't doing anything good.

What, you think I'm being too harsh?  The punishment should fit the crime.

When we start actually punishing people for their crimes, they will think twice before being so heinous.

That is all.

Okay, Kid Wonder has just solved the crime problem.  It's amazing that this novel approach has never been tried before.

For his next trick, he will tell us all how to solve the world's economic problems.  Based on this little screed, it will probably involve tax cuts to the rich, and no bid contracts to Halliburton.  The wisdom of Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz will probably figure into it, as well.

(He also seems to have absolutely no knowledge of the history of criminal justice).

So, join us next week, when our favorite hair-shirt punishment freak tells us all how to solve the world's problems.

[Cain]

Pfft, liberal pussies.  We dont need prisions.  Just shoot suspected criminals.  Its working so far in London.

[East Coast Hustle]

I've decided I know how to stop prison riots.  With guns.  Lots of guns.  When prisoners riot they should bring in the national guard and shoot the fuckers.

The same goes for people convicted of rape, child molestation, or anything like that.  Of course, in these cases their genitals should be put in a plastic shredder and then they should be shot 3 days later.

The Liberal Pussies in this county need to shut the fuck up about crime, they aren't doing anything good.

What, you think I'm being too harsh?  The punishment should fit the crime.

When we start actually punishing people for their crimes, they will think twice before being so heinous.

That is all.

stupidest thing you've said since you got caught hitting on Janet Reno at the club.

[gnimbley]

For his next trick, he will tell us all how to solve the world's economic problems.  Based on this little screed, it will probably involve tax cuts to the rich, and no bid contracts to Halliburton.  The wisdom of Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz will probably figure into it, as well.

OMG! Zurtok Khan is Prickley! We better keep this from fluffy. She still
has that butcher knife.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I've decided I know how to stop prison riots.  With guns.  Lots of guns.  When prisoners riot they should bring in the national guard and shoot the fuckers.

The same goes for people convicted of rape, child molestation, or anything like that.  Of course, in these cases their genitals should be put in a plastic shredder and then they should be shot 3 days later.

The Liberal Pussies in this county need to shut the fuck up about crime, they aren't doing anything good.

What, you think I'm being too harsh?  The punishment should fit the crime.

When we start actually punishing people for their crimes, they will think twice before being so heinous.

That is all.

stupidest thing you've said since you got caught hitting on Janet Reno at the club.

   

[Verthaine]

Legalize pot,and we wouldn't have so may danm prisoners to begin with.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Legalize pot,and we wouldn't have so may danm prisoners to begin with.

Yep, about half as many.  We would also have to pay less in taxes because a lot of those people were hard working law abiding citizens who paid taxes until their mandatory sentences that are longer than violent criminals.

[East Coast Hustle]

the problem with that idea is that the prison-industrial complex NEEDS those prisoners. Should pot be legalized, they'll just find them somewhere else. Pot should be legalized because it would provide a HUGE source of tax revenue, but that's not the point. Legalizing pot fails to address the underlying problem of the relationships between prisons (which are increasingly being privatized) and the companies that use that pool of abundant cheap labor to vastly increase their profit margins without having to suffer the stigma of having outsourced to a foreign country.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

the problem with that idea is that the prison-industrial complex NEEDS those prisoners. Should pot be legalized, they'll just find them somewhere else. Pot should be legalized because it would provide a HUGE source of tax revenue, but that's not the point. Legalizing pot fails to address the underlying problem of the relationships between prisons (which are increasingly being privatized) and the companies that use that pool of abundant cheap labor to vastly increase their profit margins without having to suffer the stigma of having outsourced to a foreign country.

SOMEBODY has to man the call centers at $0.50/hr.

Why do you think Wackenhut is the largest lobbyist for prison sentences for non-violent crimes?

[Donkeyotay]

In case anyone else was wondering WTF Wackenhut is

http://www.wackenhut.com/

[The Good Reverend Roger]

In case anyone else was wondering WTF Wackenhut is

http://www.wackenhut.com/

Purveyor of rentacops, private armies, and fine private prisons, the world over.

[KD]

To stop prison riots...Why don't we just release all the prisoners?

Whee!

[unlike_someone]

Could create an Island and stick all the violent criminals there... let them fend for themselves... The last one standing then wins a chance at returning to society. If they videotaped it, they would have created a reality show that even I would watch.

[Bella]

Could create an Island and stick all the violent criminals there... let them fend for themselves...

That's been done many times. Beginning in the 17th century, prisoners could opt for deportation to America. This is how a lot of our forebears arrived on these shores in the first place. They had to pay their own way over, or else find a sponsor, and they had to stay for a certain period of time. In 1718 the first Transportation Act allowed the courts to sentence felons guilty of serious offenses to seven years transportation to America. In 1720 a further statute authorized payments by the state to the merchants who contracted to take the convicts to America.

The first Transportation Act also allowed those guilty of capital offences and pardoned by the king to be sentenced to transportation, and it established returning from transportation as a capital offence. This practice came to a screeching halt in 1776 when the Revolutionary War broke out, so the British looked around for another remote location to use as a prison colony and settled on Australia. When the last shipment of convicts disembarked in Western Australia in 1868, the total number of transported convicts stood at around 162,000 men and women. They were transported here on 806 ships.

Between 1852 and 1946, France sent 70 000 prisoners to French Guiana, forcing them to mine for gold and cut wood in the forests. Though estimates vary widely, historians estimate between 25 and 50 percent of inmates died of diseases like malaria and yellow fever, hunger or prison violence.