The Death Penalty - are you for or against it and why?

[Anymouse]

Agreed. Which is why I think, and especially with the advent of private corporately owned prisons in America now, that a private corporately owned labor penitentiary system should be enacted as a test. One that includes segregated facilities, so that those doing life and life without parole are housed together and short timers are housed separate and apart, so they're not made prey and victim to those who have nothing to lose in a general population.

I am definitely opposed to privatising prisons. It breeds both corporate and government corruption. Those corporations get more money for more prisoners, business then applies pressure to government officials to see that they do.

One example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal