America is at an all time low for executions. Great. But we are still wasting tons of money on judges, lawyers, executioners, etc. I don't think people who are in for horrible crimes are worth my tax dollars. I have a new solution: the re-institution of slavery. I'm not talking about horrible, horrible spirit-killing stuff. Just to make the people in jail to work as hard as our grandparents and great-grandparents worked. For no pay. (Just like the immigrant great grandparents.)
I mean, wouldn't it just take the coolness out of jail if no one had the time to work out, etc., but instead had to work as farmers and as shoe-factory employees for fifteen hours a day for the rest of their lives? And if you misbehave, you get worse: cleaning bathrooms, sewers, etc. Everyone should be too tired to even consider rape.
I suppose if the system worked well enough, it could pay for itself--or even pay America back for the money we've already wasted.
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dear Suki, that's what happens in China.
ReplyDeleteWell, I suppose so. My friend's husband had parents who were in one of the work camps in China. I think that work-prison should be a lot more humane, yet tiring. I know that I am tired after a full day at work. Why shouldn't someone who murdered a person be tired after a full day of work too?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of China: China, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United States are the only countries that have capital punishment. Nice to know we have so much in common with these leaders in human rights.