BF2S Forums Are American prisons too 'soft'?

Most prison systems are absurd in the way they function to begin with. If you're trying to rehabilitate criminals, or punish them for their crimes, then what the hell is the point of putting them in "open" prisons where they socialise with other prisoners, and the only influence they have is from fellow convicts who invariably establish or continue precisely the same structures of organised crime as they had on the outside? Most of these people ended in prison by falling prey to the same people and organisations that they'll be forced to live with for the duration of their sentence, and the ones who didn't will experience it in the worst way possible, with no way out.

The lowest possible denominators of humanity are imprisoned, and they have the power and opportunity to drag every single one of their fellow inmates down with them. No wonder prisons are overcrowded.

Prisoners accused of violent crime, substance crime or organised crime should only be allowed to be around prison recreational staff for conversation and education. Anything else seems like a waste of resources to me.

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Yeah, solitary confinement works, but apparently it's inhumane or something

I don't mean solitary confinement. That -is- inhumane, and people go insane over longer periods of isolation. I mean limiting inmate interaction to people who aren't convicts, by maintaining a staff of recreational officers, therapists and educators. It might work, it might not, but it's worth a shot, and anything other than what's done now would likely be better.