and full prisons brings me to another point
when the law starts incarcerating more than a slight minority of the population, one must start looking at the law and wondering if the law is conducive to society.
There's a trend in the USA where there are a huge majority of prisoners being kept in prison longer than is usual due to the privatisation of prisons and the inherent bribery to judges and juries that go with it.
When a society runs out of places to house convicts, it has a responsibility to itself to enquire just how many of these incarcerations are necessary. Naturally as a society grows, so does the need to house criminals, however one must always be aware about the laws, and the trinity of the police-politicians and judiciary, because without these our society would be far far less than what it is today. Whenever one of these three try to increase their power at the expense of the others, it throws the balance of the system out......
I dont know jack about our prison situation. Maybe all of them deserve to be there, and due to our population growth, we simply need to build more. Or maybe we have more people committing crime for whatever reason. To build a structure and pay a bunch of cops to mind it, does not cost millions of dollars. There is no excuse for complacency here.
Also I'll refer to your reply to finish my argument - There is no such thing as rehabilitation in a prison. Very few of the criminals sent to prison will respond to such chicken/egg mentality. How are you gonna be rehabilitated in a place where you're in constant fear of your anal virginity, physical and psychological wellbeing, etc etc... I dont know a single person who'd be able to enjoy prison, in spite of grandstanding and shit talking
In either case, for once Mark Webber was right
This country is becoming a nanny state
and I f**king hate it
-D