Reply #46: You can't really believe the poster said [View All]

'end all prisons'. The prison industry, for-profit prisons, the war on drugs as social control all contribute to making the US a "prison state" which holds more prisoners than any other nation in the world - including China which has nearly 5x our population. We are a corporate prison state, and billions are made in the maintaining of it.

And those violent offenders? The majority of them are themselves products of the system - people put in prison for non-violent crimes such as drugs, petty theft, car theft and, yes, check kiting who have to join up with violent gangs for protection. They learn to be violent in prison. The overwhelming number of those imprisoned for first offenses are NOT violent, and the degree of violence increases with any subsequent imprisonments.

The prison system itself is responsible for a huge part of the crime rate in America.