The whole debate of forcing
sex offenders to put signs up in their yard made me realize something
important. We deal with criminals in a halfassed way. Believing that
sex offenders can never be rehabilitated would mean that they should
stay in prison forever. Believing that they can be rehabilitated, and
presumably have been if they're out of prison, would mean no sign should
be necessary. What does letting sex offenders that you believe are
likely to offend again out of prison mean, exactly? Does it mean the
prisons are too full, so you decided to start letting out rapists and
child molesters before junkies, prostitutes, and tax cheats? Come on.
It means we feel it is wrong for child molesters to be in prison forever
but that we think they sure don't belong outside of prison either.
Well, either they should be in or they should be out. They should not,
in any event, be a permanent underclass with full access to commit
crimes again, with as little attachment to society and fellow human
beings as possible, and with no walls or guards to stop them them
offending again. Here is what should happen with the justice system:
Five basic sentences.
1. Fines. Varying degree. To be set by judge depending on nature of crime.
2. Probation. Don't know if it strictly fits the definition, but this includes seeking some sort of therapy. If you're stealing because you don't have a job, that might be vocational training. Rehab for addicts. If you're hooking, you are referred to one of the legal brothels that would exist under the system, where you are cleaned and tested. Different crimes might get psychiatric therapy of various kinds.
3. Useful Labor. For crimes not serious enough for my harsher penalties, but too big a deal for my previous ones, we have useful labor. Can be up to 20 years or as little as a week, depending on the judge. The work would be the sort of thing Mike Rowe shows us on Dirty Jobs or that illegal immigrants do now. Useful things like houses, roads, sewer lines, ditches, and landscaping will come out of this. We will gain an ultra cheap labor force to build infrastructure and the workers will get paid, with half their paycheck going directly to their victim or their victim's family. Workers are not prisoners and will not have a felony on their record when they get out. Failure to show up to work results in being hunted down and killed like a rabid dog, but care is taken to prove they KNOW that and they get a number to call if they're sick or can't make it. Lying about not being able to show up adds a year for each offense. This means, only no call/no show gets the hunting down and killing treatment. This is also the default punishment for any criminal that a judge deems capable of being rehabilitated. For any criminal judged not capable of rehabilitation...
4. Life in prison. No parole. In it until the day you die. A very humane prison though, since the prison population is so much less, we can afford decent toilets for the cells, libraries, and other nice amenities. All privacy is lost, however, and 24 hour CO staff watches all prisoners at all times, including showers and pooping. COs are armed with full automatic weapons at all times and the penalty for harassing or threatening another prisoner is being machine gunned to death. Zero tolerance. Leave other prisoners the fuck alone. You won't ever get a chance to be alone with them to hurt them. The moment you try ANYTHING, you're dead. This isn't the playground where the teacher doesn't care. The teacher is armed to the teeth. Yeah, yeah, "fresh meat", well listen cocksucker, you got in here for preying on the weak, but if you do it in here, I'm turning you into bloody red swiss cheese and feeding you to the guard dogs. Don't even try me. So, yes, prison will be utterly safe and humane, aside from brutally enforcing the rule about not harassing or threatening other prisoners.
5. Death penalty. Nothing fancy. Sit you in a chair in front of a shooting range. Executioner shoots you in the head six times with a semi-automatic high-caliber weapon. You don't fall over, as the chair is secured. Your death should be anywhere from instant to within four seconds. Hurts less than anything they've got today. More messy maybe, but hey, we're killing you. Doesn't seem like we should try and forget that. The death penalty is limited to judges who choose it, criminals (any of whom can choose it over the other four types of sentences) who choose it, and any lifer who manages to somehow threaten, hurt, or kill another inmate without getting blown away for it at the time.
At no time is torture or inhumane treatment allowed here, unless it is specifically employed to get relevant information. Once the information is retrieved, the torture or inhumane treatment must stop immediately.
All the above is meant to reflect my idea of a justice system that would truly have, as its top priorities, individual liberty and quality of life. I'm curious what you think, as both political sides can find things not to like.
-Frank
Five basic sentences.
1. Fines. Varying degree. To be set by judge depending on nature of crime.
2. Probation. Don't know if it strictly fits the definition, but this includes seeking some sort of therapy. If you're stealing because you don't have a job, that might be vocational training. Rehab for addicts. If you're hooking, you are referred to one of the legal brothels that would exist under the system, where you are cleaned and tested. Different crimes might get psychiatric therapy of various kinds.
3. Useful Labor. For crimes not serious enough for my harsher penalties, but too big a deal for my previous ones, we have useful labor. Can be up to 20 years or as little as a week, depending on the judge. The work would be the sort of thing Mike Rowe shows us on Dirty Jobs or that illegal immigrants do now. Useful things like houses, roads, sewer lines, ditches, and landscaping will come out of this. We will gain an ultra cheap labor force to build infrastructure and the workers will get paid, with half their paycheck going directly to their victim or their victim's family. Workers are not prisoners and will not have a felony on their record when they get out. Failure to show up to work results in being hunted down and killed like a rabid dog, but care is taken to prove they KNOW that and they get a number to call if they're sick or can't make it. Lying about not being able to show up adds a year for each offense. This means, only no call/no show gets the hunting down and killing treatment. This is also the default punishment for any criminal that a judge deems capable of being rehabilitated. For any criminal judged not capable of rehabilitation...
4. Life in prison. No parole. In it until the day you die. A very humane prison though, since the prison population is so much less, we can afford decent toilets for the cells, libraries, and other nice amenities. All privacy is lost, however, and 24 hour CO staff watches all prisoners at all times, including showers and pooping. COs are armed with full automatic weapons at all times and the penalty for harassing or threatening another prisoner is being machine gunned to death. Zero tolerance. Leave other prisoners the fuck alone. You won't ever get a chance to be alone with them to hurt them. The moment you try ANYTHING, you're dead. This isn't the playground where the teacher doesn't care. The teacher is armed to the teeth. Yeah, yeah, "fresh meat", well listen cocksucker, you got in here for preying on the weak, but if you do it in here, I'm turning you into bloody red swiss cheese and feeding you to the guard dogs. Don't even try me. So, yes, prison will be utterly safe and humane, aside from brutally enforcing the rule about not harassing or threatening other prisoners.
5. Death penalty. Nothing fancy. Sit you in a chair in front of a shooting range. Executioner shoots you in the head six times with a semi-automatic high-caliber weapon. You don't fall over, as the chair is secured. Your death should be anywhere from instant to within four seconds. Hurts less than anything they've got today. More messy maybe, but hey, we're killing you. Doesn't seem like we should try and forget that. The death penalty is limited to judges who choose it, criminals (any of whom can choose it over the other four types of sentences) who choose it, and any lifer who manages to somehow threaten, hurt, or kill another inmate without getting blown away for it at the time.
At no time is torture or inhumane treatment allowed here, unless it is specifically employed to get relevant information. Once the information is retrieved, the torture or inhumane treatment must stop immediately.
All the above is meant to reflect my idea of a justice system that would truly have, as its top priorities, individual liberty and quality of life. I'm curious what you think, as both political sides can find things not to like.
-Frank
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