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Prison reform if you made the decisions

Prison reform if you made the decisions

GuyWearingTripps Created Jul 5, 2025 11:30
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I've had many friends that choose a life that puts them in jail and a few that have ended up in prison. Some come out and turn their life around while others go further down the same path. With the goal of maximum percentage of turning the lives around for all and making the system self sustaining here is my solution.

First nearly all that I have seen go further down the path their first priority when getting out has been money. I would put job systems such as a factory for prisons and something smaller scale such as animal rehabilitation at jails. Give them a pay rate based on similar rates in the area, and have their pay broken down on check stubs similar to how taxes are shown. Toss a rent fee on to cover the costs of prison or jail, give 5 or 10 percent to them for buying luxuries. All that is left over can be placed 20% and 80% in a savings account and a brokerage accout invested. If they are in for life give them the option to have more in luxury funds and put it into the account of family on the outside, giving support to help any kids they have, sibling, or parent. For those going to get out have a daily class on money management and investing. For those that want to learn a skill offer a weekly class in a trade school preferably on sight.

 

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Psychopatrish

Jul 5, 2025 18:43

This is a very noble hypothesis, however the privatization of prisons has incurred a complex web of profit.

Succinctly, incarceration has proven a lucrative business incentive eliminating any concern for true reform of prisoners.

Eoten

Jul 5, 2025 19:20

I think the difference of if they get their s**t together, or if they don't has more to do with personality than the prison itself. If someone is the type of person to think everyone is against them, and everyone else is the source of their problems, they're probably going to be in prison at some point of their life. For some it's a wakeup call, for others, they never learn. I don't think there's much you can do to force it onto the individual.

In the US, the huge problem is there's a culture that glorifies rap sheets and prison time. It becomes a badge of honor in some communities. I'm not going to pretend prisons are some how full of people who haven't done something where they deserve to be there.

And on the whole "private prison" argument. About 8% of the prison population is in those prisons. That's a tiny, tiny amount compared to the overall population to try to make some argument based on it being some kind of for-profit system. That's 8%, and it's not an easy case to make that the people even making up that 8% wouldn't be in any other prison for what they do.

ETHAFULM

Jul 5, 2025 20:38

One issue I’m concerned about is prison rape. There needs to be consequences to prison supervisors in the case of rapes happening in prisons.

Eoten

Jul 5, 2025 21:19

What even are the numbers on that? Best I can find is a 2006 study which claimed 2,205 incidents, of which 262 were substantiated. I looked up the number of people in prison that year and got 1,502,179. Even if we take the larger number, and assume each one is a different person (worse case scenario) that comes out to 0.14678676775537%. But even the highest reported incidents in survey is 4%. It seems much more common than that if you go by TV and movies.

 

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