RE: Fucking Cops: Volume II
July 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2016 at 1:06 pm by Lek.)
(July 16, 2016 at 9:46 am)Chad32 Wrote:(July 15, 2016 at 9:21 pm)Lek Wrote: Great idea! Criminals should absolutely be charged for their room and board if they have the income. Why should the taxpayers pay for it? In fact, we should make pay them the rent for the law-abiding citizens who they hurt.
I did not mean that I support such a thing. We all know the American justice system is fucked up, and this seems a little too close to slave labor. I don't think we should be making money off of criminals, because it incentivizes people in power to hold more criminals for longer periods of time, regardless of what they've done. This also goes along with my belief that we should be rehabilitating people. Not punishing them. Most people that do fucked up shit are fucked in the head, and spending time in a cage doing forced labor isn't helping their mental problems.
I agree that rehabilitation should be the ultimate goal of imprisonment, but I don't agree that most criminals are that way because they have mental problems which force them to commit crimes. Most of them are just people who wanted to commit the crime because of hate, passion, a desire for personal gain or whatever. If they are guilty and have the money they should pay for their own upkeep. If they are determined to have a mental illness that factored into the situation, then they should be treated accordingly. No. I don't think the system always works fairly nor does any human institution. I do think that we have one of the best possible systems. No system, no matter how well designed, will work well unless the people running the system are morally upright. You can try to design or fix the system all you want, but if you have crooked people running it, the system will fail. When it comes down to it, the best way to change an institution is to work to change the minds and hearts of those who participate in it. In this case it's the people who run the system and those who willfully commit the crimes for which they are being prosecuted and punished.