USA needs far more prisons than ever before
Actually, we need to cut the number of prisons in half. We already have more people in prison than nation on this planet. China has four times the population and we have more people in prison than
communist China! If you're going to participate in this, you really should read the thread so we don't have to end up beating a dead horse.
That not really true compared to Europe the US has major prison population problem but compared to the world many other countries that have a very high prison population are close to the US level.
When you look at the map it all comes down to poverty. The countries that have more poverty are worse.
You you cannot really look at China because it is communist country.
And even that, is really reversing the causal link.
Crime.... causes.... poverty. People that engage in crime, get fired from their jobs. Don't advance up the economic ladder. End up going to prison, have criminal records, which makes it even more difficult for them to climb the economy ladder.
The implication here is that if we can just eliminate poverty, that crime will go away. That is absolutely false.
You need to eliminate crime, and then poverty will go away.
When people stop engaging in crime, and instead start working for what they want, they'll naturally progress up the economic ladder.
So locking people up, and enforcing the law... and teaching right and wrong in the public, that there is no excuse for crime.... that is how you end up with people becoming wealthy. Because they'll start working lawfully for what they want.
The problem is morals, and a lack of law enforcement. We need to double the size of our police force, and start coming down hard on crime.
Then poverty will decline.
Additionally, we need to stop encouraging unwed mothers, and stop subsidizing the breakup of the family. That also has a direct clear impact on crime, which has a direct impact on poverty.
Those are the solutions. Family values, and enforcing the law.
what they need to do is send them to a military school that teaches education and rehab them than give them a TV and gym to workout in prison to get big and strong.
If you don’t get high school you are going to get low paying job getting less than 10 dollars flipping burgers, working at car wash ,taking out the trash, being house cleaner or working at dishwasher in fast food or restaurant.
You well lack of education and good paying job and you will be doing crime to support your self.
That's not true. I know people who worked those jobs, without education, and didn't need to do crime to support themselves.
ME... for example.
I have no education. I have no training. No skills. No nothing.
I have worked flipping burgers, working a car wash, taking out trash, and so on.
Never once did I think.... oh I need to engage in crime to support myself!
By the way, cleaning houses is not a low pay job. What the heck are you talking about? You realize that house cleaners of any decent reputation, make almost $50/hour? How much they make a year, only is dependent on how many houses they are willing to do a day.
Now it takes work. You got to work at it. But you clean 3 houses a day, putting in 2 to 3 hours at each house, that's $200, to $400 per day. You do that 5 days a week, that's $2,000 a week, or $100,000 a year.
Ask me how I know that? I know two women that do that. There is only one reason they don't make $100,000 a year, and it simply because.... they don't want to. They would rather do fewer houses, and have time with their family.
But that actually illustrates my point. Anyone in this country, even ex-convicts, can be wealthy. It's a matter of choice. If you go and clean houses, you can make good money.
The problem isn't this mythology that people can't earn enough and thus.... magically... they just simply have no choice but to commit crime! .... No. The problem is, people don't want to work.
It's that simple. They commit crime, because they simply have no morals and think they are "entitled" to what they want in life. That is it. All that "they have no choice!" crap is made up left-wing nonsense.