PRISON REFORM PAGE

"It is the nature of punishment to have for an end the disposing of men to obey the law. For the punishment foreknown, if not great enough to deter men from the action, is an invitement to it: because when men compare the benefit of their injustice with the harm of their punishment, by necessity of nature they choose that which appeareth best for themselves..." Thomas Hobbes 1651

"You may call an act an crime or what other name you will; yet it can never be against reason, seeing all the voluntary actions of men tend to the benefit of themselves..." ibid

DRUG POLICY

Of America's 1.7 million prisoners, 1.4 million (80 percent) are incarcerated for drug or alcohol related offenses (alcohol is highly related to violent crime). We have imprisoned our children, turned our country into a gangland, and given up our most precious rights in the name of health! We fight a lost and immoral war instead of teaching our children values. Here are some problems with the policy of war on drugs:

SUMMARY PROS AND CONS OF WAR ON DRUGS

AGAINSTFOR
Immoral Health
Expensive
Loss of rights
Racist
Destroys other countries
Impractical
Bad for health to be in jail or use dirty drugs

ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION

Incarceration disrupts the economy, family life, is inhumane and brutalizing, and is a training ground for criminals and is prohibitively expensive. Although America does not lead the world in crime, except for murder, we have gone overboard on building prisons. The following also addresses the problem that "rehabilitation" is a fraud. Alternatives:

SOME BONEHEADED IDEAS

Weightlifting for violent predators. Whoever thought up that idea should be shot.

Governor Branstad of Iowa has proposed teaching computer skills to inmates. That's all we need, more computer criminals. Skills, yes. Skills that could be used for crime, no thanks.

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