RE: Capital Punishment Fans
September 7, 2013 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2013 at 2:55 pm by Whateverist.)
I think we should be more mindful of how counter productive jail time tends to be. It is expensive as all hell and accomplishes nothing except -maybe- to get people off of meth and other destructive drugs. It wrecks lives rather than rehabilitating them. People think the prospect of prison is what's necessary to keep us all from killing each other, but someone please explain the logic of that. There is none.
Coming home from a walk this morning we were listening to a talk radio call in session about the guy who killed someone while driving drunk and then made a youtube video accepting responsibility. He did this in spite of his lawyer's assurance that he could totally walk owing to some technicalities in the way the case was handled. Most of the people who called in were insistent that he not be cut any slack. More than one expressed that being a spokesperson against DUI won't bring back the victim. Hello?! Like prison time will? Jail time is such an expensive indulgence. Let the guy work for 5 or 10 years while having his wages garnered to send to the victim's family. He could live in a half-way house or even in his own house. He could work to alleviate the guilt he obviously feels, we wouldn't have to chip in 80 grand a year to warehouse him, and after the time was up he wouldn't be one more ruined individual who can only work as a tow truck driver or a roofer because of his record .. leading to recidivism and increased criminal behavior.
Why are our values as a country so fucked up? Are we slow?
Coming home from a walk this morning we were listening to a talk radio call in session about the guy who killed someone while driving drunk and then made a youtube video accepting responsibility. He did this in spite of his lawyer's assurance that he could totally walk owing to some technicalities in the way the case was handled. Most of the people who called in were insistent that he not be cut any slack. More than one expressed that being a spokesperson against DUI won't bring back the victim. Hello?! Like prison time will? Jail time is such an expensive indulgence. Let the guy work for 5 or 10 years while having his wages garnered to send to the victim's family. He could live in a half-way house or even in his own house. He could work to alleviate the guilt he obviously feels, we wouldn't have to chip in 80 grand a year to warehouse him, and after the time was up he wouldn't be one more ruined individual who can only work as a tow truck driver or a roofer because of his record .. leading to recidivism and increased criminal behavior.
Why are our values as a country so fucked up? Are we slow?
