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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
Crazy question. How do people feel about the death penalty especially in the context of these school shootings?
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Jared
@javabu.eth
I'm still opposed.
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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
So a person kills 4 people. And we think rehabilitation is in play? I think of prisons in the USA as a breeding ground for bull jive. Then we socially frown upon felonies - reducing potential productivity of that individual when they get out. I have friends from high school who are locked for life, not getting out. So the state feeds & houses them for 60 years? If society deems someone impossible to rehabilitate then we execute. I’m also very cool with exile.
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Chainleft
@chainleft
The problem you're describing is not a judicial decision problem. It's a "bad management of prisons" problem. No other developed nation has this prison problem.
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Augustus Caesar
@augustuscaesar
True. I’m just trying to see if there are other solutions. Honestly our prisons, from what I can hear, are jungles and they should be more rehabilitating
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Jared
@javabu.eth
The other issue is for-profit prisons and the contracts they have with states. "Most of the private prison contracts in America require states to keep at least 90% of prison beds filled or pay a penalty to private, for-profit corporations. Advocacy group In the Public Interest obtained and analyzed 62 contracts between states and local jurisdictions and private prison companies that govern the operation of 77 county and state-level facilities. Sixty-five percent contained occupancy requirements between 80 and 100%, with many around 90%. Arizona (100%), Louisiana (96%), Oklahoma (98%), and Virginia (95%) had the highest quotas." https://eji.org/news/private-prison-quotas-drive-mass-incarceration/
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