Insted of just locking people in jail, Do you think locking them up in an education kinda system would work?

The thing that got me thinking is when i read about repeat offenders and the limited choices they have in life. They don't want to steal but how can they not if they have don't know what else to do.

It would work for some people. Many people are going to be bad anyway. But since it would help some then it is worth hollering to influential people about. You never know what can happen!

Depends on the crime. Perhaps it is a reform that would help a small percentage of the prisoners. Remember all American have a choice to become educated, they choose not to the first time.

It depends what they did to get sent to prison. A lot of inmates could benefit form learning a trade in prison, but some such as child molesters should just be shot.

Maybe they could live in your house. Or next door. Play with your children. It's not their fault they are criminals. It's your fault. Let me know how it's going for you. Silly liberal.

Nah...that would just educate them more. Then they'd come up with brighter ideas to make the world theirs. I say jail's better. After all, a theif is a theif. I mean, you can't necessarily call someone innocent if they purposely commit crime.

Efforts should be made for education and rehabilitation. However, most of these people came out of the public education system, hate systems and people in general, and your success rate would be low for the general population, but higher for properly selected individuals.

I've met and/or worked with plenty of ex-cons, and same as general society, we're talking about a really mixed bag of people here.

The fact is, they should have the basics of how to operate in society, and the morals to make healthy decisions, before they hit junior high.



Teach your children well.

Are you suggesting that Society (i.e., the taxpayers, the victims) are responsible for crime?

I personally don't give a ratsass about criminals, and would simply release nonviolent drug offenders and let them go their merry way, while simply incarcerating violent types until they are simply too old and infirm to initiate violence on anyone else.

I'm not responsible for fixing their problem. I just want to be protected from predators.

Believe it or not, there are many educational programs in prison. Also, the people in jail had every opportunity while they were 3-22 to get an education in the public school system. If they chose not to learn then, why do you think they would bother now?

Honestly, many prisoners do attend education training in prison. They learn how to be better criminals by learning from other prisoners. They meet connections, learn new methods of crime, and new modes of criminal activity.

People who don't want to steal, do not have to steal. We have many opportunities in our fine country that feed the poor, house the homeless, and clothe the needy. Why do they HAVE to steal?

Sure, you to class with Ted Bundy.

It would be great for the prisoners if they were actually being educated while they are incarcerated. One problem would be that many of them are not interested in learning anything except how to keep from getting caught the next time. Another is that the cost of keeping prisoners, while it is now high, would be astronomically high if it were necessary to hire educators for the prison populations. I, personally, cannot afford the kind of taxes that would be necessary, especially since it would be wasted on, what I would estimate to be, about half the prison population, those who are totally uninter-ested in furthering their education.