
Wow, you really aren't a lefty..
That is politically unfeasible in the West, as it will remind people of slavery and groups similar to BLM will scream black slavery especially.
How does prison as it is currently make any sense whatsoever?
We’re paying as a society for convicts to sleep, exercise, and eat three square meals in a building they can’t leave indefinitely. They’re just holding cells without providing any benefit for the population or the prisoner.
Not only would it make economic sense to put them to work, it makes psychological sense. People need work to feel accomplished. They could be trained in a field of work during their prison stay, do their time and put in their work, and after their release, they’d have useful/transferable skill sets for their reintegration into society, which would reduce the rates of recidivism or reentry into a life of crime. Half the time, the reason they become convicts is due to the fact that they had no chance at learning a trade or any form of legal work.
I also think they should all have limited isolation periods, not for ungodly amounts of time that would amount to torture, but something determined by science, or short in span, like 1-2 hrs/wk as a form of reflection, as well as some sort of re-education/re-integration program through volunteers. Having minorities who are prisoners come out of jail with a marketable profession would actually help those groups.
I support this idea, but work has to be brought to them, and not them go out of prison building to work, otherwise u will see a lot of escape convicts running and attacking a poor house wife like me in the neighborhood.
I think they should be out in the world. Maybe chip technology would be helpful in keeping tabs on them.
It's a very good idea and I've been thinking about it recently. I plan on building a labour camp in my tuulo where prisoners can 'learn skills' and do 'professional development' to decrease recidivism (i.e. they will be my slaves and I will profit).
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No. They would have to be public. No one benefits, but the state. No private prisons.