Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

Cut out "private" and we have a deal

We need prisons for rapists, murderers, big-time thieves, etc. Just way fewer of them.

Yeah I mean "all" is certainly extreme, but we could get rid of probably 90% of our detention facilities (including jails)

That's not an impossible-sounding number.

Especially when you consider that 30-40% of people currently in them have not been convicted of a crime

(Roughly 75% of the jail population wich iirc accounts for ~50% of those behind bars)

Don't worry, they'll be convicted after they're threatened with the death penalty for carrying weed, and plea down to 10 years. #notrial

The plea system is one of those things I'm super conflicted on. The concept is good and useful but the current incentive structure is awful