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Originally Posted by pylon
What do we need to do to improve our justice system?
We need to strip criminals of all of their rights. You get convicted of serious violent or sexual crime, you have none until you serve your full sentence. If you get an early release, you still have no rights until your probation is done. You get no health care, government assistance, unemployment benefits, no right to vote, no access to credit. You are also labeled with some sort of marker to inform anyone who comes into contact with you of what a piece of garbage you are. You can merely exist, like a stray dog, and have the same rights as that dog.
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I can't believe I'm going to disagree with this. However in the case of first time offenders, then your creating a environment where a person is certainly going to offend again. I'm all for a more strict regime for violent offenders, and I have a special hatred in my heart for sexual offenders. But at some point you have to rehabilitate and reintigrate them into society. Again for first time offenders you have to give them a chance. Conversely I think we have to make prisons a harder place, not to survive, but make it a more unpleasant alternative, and quit making prisons a finishing school for criminal behavior. So, no T.V., no computers except for job training. Bring back hard labour sentences, don't allow criminals to complete their sentences while refusing to own up to their crimes. Force them to make restitution to their victims or the victims families. Make it a little tougher to get paroled, you should have to prove your remorse and show your steps to becoming a normal member of society. If your a drug head, then its segregation through rehab, and if after that your caught with drugs in your system while in prison its back to 6 moths of segregation.
For Multi time offenders, you serve a sentence to the Queens pleasure, which means if you reoffend violently you're probably not going to get out, you had your chance and blew it.
I'm still a fan of removing multitime violent offenders right from society to the arctic circle where your prison is a community with no guards, no rules. We air drop food in and if you want to escape its a thousand mile walk through the worst weather known to man.
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We need to re-instate the death penalty. In murder cases where there is zero doubt, or an admission of guilt, off to the chamber you go.
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I agree with this to an extent, the problem is that nobody is going to confess, because murderers are cowards and don't want to die like a byatch. And there's rarely zero doubt. What about the insane, the sick, the drug addicted. I do however believe that in the case of 1st degree or intentional murder, the sentence is life, and life means life. I also believe that we need to bring back consecutive term sentencing. If there is parole its incredibly strigent and tough to get.
for multi timers its off to the arctic with you to count trees.
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We need to castrate child molesters on their first offenses. And I don't mean chemically, chop it all off. Female offenders should be sewn shut. Even though the libs out there might be disappointed, you know..... how they think child porn is art and all. And no segregation for diddlers any more. Off to general population you go, and when you show up, it is announced over the prison PA system who you are and what you did. Also a nice leaflet with a picture of you, your victim, and a description of your crimes, should be handed out to all of the other inmates.
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I don't believe that Pedo's are treatable anymore then homosexuals can be "cured" Its a crime of sexual compulsion. Of all of the criminals to me that should never be back in society these guys and gals fit that bill. And while you can't really post pamphlets and post pictures, you can put them into general population.
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White collar criminals need to be sent to regular prisons and put in general population. The guy that robs thousands of people of millions of dollars, is a more serious offender than some guy that robbed a 7-11. He should not get preferencial treatment.
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Are you talking about sending them to a maximum security prison for violent offenders? Because these white coller criminals might be scum bags, but they're not violent.
I believe that there has to be more restitution for these guys. IE a term of them getting parole is paying back their victims. If they're broke they'd better start punching license plates at 10 cents per plate. If they can't pay it off then they don't get parole.
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I know I sound like a barbarian or something, but I could care less about sick violent criminals, and I have zero empathy for their condition. I know we live in a society that protects the rights of everyone, but I feel it has gone too far, and we are too forgiving as a society now.
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Not a barbarian, but its tough not to be fed up when you read about a baby sitter buggering a 5 year old girl and getting a 100 days in jail. Or these two sicko's that killed the proctor girl and are trying to cut a deal.