Should we replace jails and prisons with some kind of humane slave labor?

putting them away and isolating them from society may seem efficient, but when you think about it it's nothing but a waste of tax dollars. So why not instead of locking people up we put them in some kind of labor camp that's humane and at the end of the day they can go home but they must allow the government to install cameras in their house that record everything 24/7 and send a live feed to the police. Then with the money they make from the work they are forced to do they pay the victims and the courts? Let's say someone is found guilty for attempted murder and receives 15 years give them 15 years of hard labor and only allow them to leave the house to go to work. They could be outfitted with a really sophisticated, impossible to remove ankle monitoring bracelet that zaps them and renders them unconscious if they are 100 feet from their house.

they have a type of prison like this in texas...the inmates get smaller sentences but they are forced to do hard labor every single day in the blazing heat...i did a project on it in high school...it showed most inmates dont commit another crime after they are released plus it saves tax dollars...so i would agree with you.

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I believethis should be true only for violent offenders not people in jail for drugs or vandalism/burglary.

Feh...We should, but history has proved that it doesn't necessarily mean we will. Making them actually WORK would be seen as taking their supposed rights away, but considering, they forfeited their "rights" by committing the crimes in the first place, IMAO...

I answered your question on being Spanish. The answer to this one is:England many years ago sent prisoners to Australia to serve their sentence in the fields etc.

Bad idea & forbidden by the US Constitution. But, there is nothing wrong with chain gangs providing labor for the County/State.

Are we on Candid Camera? Are you serious with this? So you think Charles Manson would play nicely if we told him he had to stay in the house? okay then.

I'm with you on the labor part, but they should not get to go home at night if they are dangerous at all. Whatever happened to the good old days, when an armed robbery would land you in the chain gang?

Oh yeah, prisoners suddenly deserve cable TV instead. It's sad.

They should contribute to society and the cost of housing themselves somehow.
It should not be a burden on working people to support them.

Our congress is currently looking at ways to rehab offenders that are doing time for drugs and alchohol instead of taking up space in our prison system.
Currently we have 26% of illegals immigrants in our system that should be shipped back across the border.

no. prisons are overpopulated. makes them harderwhen they are released and girls too. sooooooooo boot camps and trainig is good. do something to help the country not corrupt it. your invading privacy and invading others right to freedom. your gonna let a child molester free to live in a house where there are kids, with a cammera or a covicted 6 counts rapist? your plan isn't thought out well. but harsher jail sentences are good. rapist get 10 yrs and drug dealers get 40. child pedophiles get 50 too. then the crap would stop. min 10 yrs for guns. and who is gonna pay for this?

first of all "zapping them unconscious" is not humane. your point about wasteful tax dollars is correct. we can use them to provide labor on public works projects, much like they do now(fires,cleaning roads,etc) as far as housing them i prefer keeping them in barely minimal housing (no heat or ac, no tv, no beds just bed rolls) and with only the least amount of food to eat, no 3 hots and a cot. their day is to start at 5am and end at 5pm.