[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I've said it before and I'll say it again... Make violent criminals WORK. Three hots and a cot is not sufficient punishment. Hard, HARD labor... you know, all those jobs us lazy Americans don't want to do. Generate some revenue to cover the cost of incarceration AND employ more guards to oversee the work (keep the peace). Win, fucking win.

Instead, we have two sides... the 'kill em all' and the 'they deserve cable TV' factions with the loudest voices.

This is perhaps the most ridiculous and wasteful thing about our prison system. They do little to actively "rehabilitate" these criminals. They have the option to sit and rot for 10 years, learn all kinds of fun new crime techniques, and then be released back to the streets.

Put them to work, like you said, doing less than desirable jobs. I would even be in favor of allowing them to work funds into a savings account to be accessible once they're released, there is no benefit to society to release criminals with absolutely no money and a felony record. Clean the highways, clean the animal shelters, clean the rivers...there's a thousand things they could be doing to help society, generate revenue and rebuild their "character" and gain a sense of self-worth.

People who presumably won't ever get out of prison can work toward credits to buy smokes, get extra rec time and so on and so forth.

Worried about escape? Put a taser bracelet on them that goes off once they get so many feet away from a base beacon. Simple.