Hundreds of counties around the country have ended in-person jail visits, replacing them with video calls and earning a cut of the profits. One mother said, of two years without seeing her children, “It broke our bond.”
People make mistakes and some are prison worthy. However, we want them to do their time, grow in the process, and ultimately return to society as better people. Instead, we throw people in prison who don’t belong there, keep out privileged ones who do far worse and need prison, don’t provide the needed help, and make prison so miserable that people can’t actually grow into something better.
This is 100% NOT the purpose of prisons in the United States. It SHOULD be about rehabilitation and having consequences for your actions, but prisons in America are more like 50/50: corporate profit and vengeance/vindictiveness.
The rest of what you said, funny enough, is exactly why people are voting for Trump. They’re convinced that he gives a shit, and they’re convinced he’s going to go all “off with their heads” which is why they’re never turned off by how outrageous he is and how absolutely unprofessional he is. It’s exactly what they want, burn the current system and fix it.
This is 100% NOT the purpose of prisons in the United States. It SHOULD be about rehabilitation and having consequences for your actions, but prisons in America are more like 50/50: corporate profit and vengeance/vindictiveness.
The rest of what you said, funny enough, is exactly why people are voting for Trump. They’re convinced that he gives a shit, and they’re convinced he’s going to go all “off with their heads” which is why they’re never turned off by how outrageous he is and how absolutely unprofessional he is. It’s exactly what they want, burn the current system and fix it.
Oh, we’ve already seen, he has no problem burning things down…
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