Solve prisons
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:02 am
A few years ago I sat with my wife at a fast food joint, waiting for a car to be fixed in Auburn NY, and talking about the , and I was like, "huh, prisons.... what are they for?" So, with no researching we figured these three things:
1. protection
2. rehabilitation
3. punishment
1 makes the most sense. These people have done harm to society and to protect society they must be removed from society.
2 also makes sense. Like a recall of a car, got to fix these people before allowing them back on the road.
3 is an understandable purpose, but clouds the first two once people enter prison. Is being raped in prison protecting our society? Is it rehabilitating them? Ideally 1 is not just protection from society but their protection too? A supermax would solve that, but it's punishing isolation would essentially give up on rehabilitation.
Where's the right balance? Solve prisons.
1. protection
2. rehabilitation
3. punishment
1 makes the most sense. These people have done harm to society and to protect society they must be removed from society.
2 also makes sense. Like a recall of a car, got to fix these people before allowing them back on the road.
3 is an understandable purpose, but clouds the first two once people enter prison. Is being raped in prison protecting our society? Is it rehabilitating them? Ideally 1 is not just protection from society but their protection too? A supermax would solve that, but it's punishing isolation would essentially give up on rehabilitation.
Where's the right balance? Solve prisons.