Should Prisons be turned into Schools, Factories, >

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In summary, prisons should be turned into schools, universities, factories, hospitals, etc. because the nature of any crime is such that the offender must return to the victim, or to the family of the victim, or to the offended community at large, a proportion of what is taken, while at the same time maintaining the fundamental principle of EQUITY.

Should prisons change? If so, into what? (please give reasons)

  • Change Into Schools and Hospitals

    Votes: 4 30.8%
  • Change Into Factories

    Votes: 8 61.5%
  • Change Into Religious and Humanitarian Centres

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Leave them unchanged

    Votes: 3 23.1%

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  • #36
Loren Booda said:
Riker's Island prison and the Los Angeles County jail are the largest de facto mental hospitals in the U.S.

Do events there meet the EQUITY standards, locally, if not globally? Has anyone there been cured before and re-meployed in the hospital or factory services? Do you have more information about this? Give us an idea of how things are in there...point us to some hard facts!
 
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  • #37
Out of sight, out of mind!
 
  • #38
Loren Booda said:
Out of sight, out of mind!

Then why bother telling us about it?
 
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The criminal justice system is the channel in which many people with mental illness find themselves, a substitute for hospitals of old. In many jurisdictions nowadays the only way to commit people - ironically because their rights deny them the medical route if they refuse, unless the person poses a danger to themselves or the public - is to arrest them for a minor infraction, then hold them indefinitely with or without medicine. Can you imagine being psychotic and rather than be admitted to a clinic, getting gang-banged, raped or addicted in prison? Many take their own life under such duress.
 
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I was thinking of the hospital system that really cures and rehabilitates the curable cases and equitably accommodates the uncurable ones to the very last moment. What you are describing functions to the contrary, if true.
 
  • #41
The GREATEST price in a civil society is SENSE OF PURPOSE...and I suspect that high rate of suicide in and outside prisons may have a close link to the denial of this!
 

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