If you had the power to change the corrections system in the United States, what changes would you make...?

Question

to help reduce and prevent crime?

Answer 1

Enforce the Death Penalty

Answer 2

let out the small time offenders

Answer 3

Release and/or not prosecute those jailed for possession of drugs.

Answer 4

Let out the people who get busted for petty crimes like a joint, or public intox, and keep the hard timers there for longer, I don't think someone who murdered another person should be able to get out "On good time" only serving a third or half of the original sentence.

Answer 5

Correction facilities must have a policy framework that is people centered and cultural context of rehabilitation based on prisoners accepting responsibility for their crimes and make amends to those they hurt and getting involved in change of character and re-development of skills to repay society by being responsible residents in prison and future outside citizens in gainful employment.

For those who are physically and mentally healthy I would start an employment program for those prisoners show good behavior and moral rehabilitation where the state gets 40% and prisoner gets 60% after costs of production of goods and services that inmates produce.

This will help reduce costs of prison maintenance and majority of prisoners will have productive and not idle time.

One thing my policy will not allow privatization for profit of correctional facilities, but can allow secular non-profits to run programs in addition to spiritual and educational upliftment.

A prison is not warehouse of units that are just socially dysfunctional, but a place where individuals learn to have a second chance.

Answer 6

release all people incarcerated for any marijauna charge

This would free the systems overcrowding and give freedom back to people whom the drug zealots have stolen it from.

our founding fathers would be ashamed if they knew that people were imprisioned for pot !!

REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries.

pleasures as recorded in George Washington's diary, August 7, 1765: "— began to separate the male from the female hemp at Do — rather too late." This is a practice related to drug potency and not fiber culture!

Thomas Jefferson, when an ambassador to France, smuggled the finest hemp seeds from Asia (hemp's origin) to cultivate here in Virginia! He also wrote about the advantages of hemp over tobacco, in use, labor and for the sake of the land.

Answer 7

i think that young kids that r in jovy should not go there, because the start having bad records and start doing crimes for life.

i really like the way the US sets laws but its the people that dont follow them

Answer 8

Send all of the hard-core criminals (murderers, rapists, pedophiles, liberals) to Iraq.  I would give them a gun and basically instruct them that they will be the first front in any major battle.  Once the war is over if they are still alive than they will be set free.(not really, we would make sure they don't come back one way or another) Its a win-win.  The criminals get to inflict violence on our enemies and we get rid of our criminals.

Answer 9

I would say: Help the endangered animals and also help the poor! I trust god with this