Guess who makes up the fastest-growing demographic in prison 

The social security of the 2050s :(

But what if you get away with it? Be singing and dancing.

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@@vannarooski8730 ya.. that wont happen but nice try.

@@JohnnyCrowell-l3n Does the 'cp' in your user name stand for communist party? Asking for a friend who is researching China's social credit scoring system.

They probably committed a crime of not paying their taxes on time ...

Cops are lazy ,fat ,and stupid . Only like eazy prey to fill their qouta and make rank .

​@@xys0077lol.

If those stupid prizes are inefficient and ineffective ways of dealing with social ills, maybe stupid prizes just describe stupid policies.

They are paid to keep people in prison. No wonder they prefer to keep the more secure ones. Who would want to be stabbed at work? From their point of view, it is a win-win situation.

You mean like costing the tax payers a lot more money by turning prisons into nursing homes?

That was my thought exactly, but sadly-no.

@@DonRood-fx3dt Yeah, my hopes were crushed a little too.

Nope, did not watch it neither

Sadly no, as then they'd be suffering the consequences of their own policies.

No, this is their coping mechanism. Least capable group on the planet.

Because that's where the money is; tax payers are the only people who work and create actual value.

Because reducing crime and mass incarceration means addressing economic inequality, and America requires an economic underclass to function.

@@me-ye6ld the underclass exists because humans are unequal in their cognition, ability, and impulse control, thus the bottom of the barrel will never be able to compete on an even playing field, thus they have to resort to crime.

@@me-ye6ld capitalism at its finest!

No, it;s old right wingers.

@@wascawywabbit0987 Unfortunately, not the super rich ones

Tell that to Donald tRump

@@hellstromcarbunkle8857 I'd prefer to tell that to Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, and Eric Adams.

@@toservemind All of whom did their jobs as defined by the laws of New York. Wow, that was easy.

Sounds good, until you follow the money trail and discover the biggest source of law and order funds is actually the private prison system. Just a coincidence, right? Right?

@hellstromcarbunkle8857 All of whom did not. WOW.. I really hit a home run this time. Ohhh boy. Wooo!

It's actually not, to any great degree. The biggest problem is the private prison system which sends money to legislators to convince them to make everything a felony and fill those beds.

These aren’t just the consequences of their actions but the consequences of our attitudes toward justice and our indifference toward the roots of criminality. We have the responsibility to carefully consider if this is actually what a good justice system does, to identify the collateral consequences of our policies, and to consider if these policies are actually effective at preventing crime. You can call this being a bleeding heart, but you’re equally guided by emotion. It’s emotion without intellect that results in draconian policies that only compound the social ills they’re supposed to treat though. If you’re not curious about the problem and only have moralistic platitudes to offer, you’re not coming from a place of reason.

All that is required for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. Our prisons are a huge problem. You can choose to look away, but that doesn't make the problem go away.

It plays a BIG part. Make a guess which group funds the activists who push for longer sentences. I'll give you a hint: It's the private prison system. They pay money to legislators, and in turn they get more inmates. And it doesn't really matter whether they are high risk or low risk anymore. The only thing important is filling those cells with long-term inmates who can't be paroled - which means a permanent revenue stream for the private prisons. And nobody cares - until it affects someone in their own family. And then it's too late.

If you want to solve the problem of homelessness, you need to build more houses, not prisons ...

You're such a compassionate person.

@@xys0077 so build homes for drug addicts and the mentally ill?

That's only kinda, mostly true. Even being rich and famous is no guarantee that they won't try to make you into their next new license plate machine operator.

@@mbblegb mmm well I think most people if you don’t do crimes you won’t go to jail. Let’s say 99.9%

Mandatory Minimums are actually INCREASING in Iowa, and there's NO Compassionate Release Program of any kind. She turned several Misdemeanors into Felonies.. and is thinking of reinstating the Death Penalty. She took away pretty much all background checks, and licenses to carry, and drive through cocktails are permanently legal now, but somehow not an open container. People used to pick up their families to move here especially for our education system, but it's now no better than many other places, and are already archaic policies are only growing. Some Pardon and Clemency applications were signed 15 years ago, yet they've not even been touched. They just keep passing them on to the next person.. This is all the result of having red in office for far too long. We're used to being the last in the country when it comes to acquiring new technology, trends, restaurants, etc but that doesn't mean we should be regressing instead of progressing. Our state IS prosecuting for abortions.. and not just the mother. She'll stand on stage bragging about the economy, but then be 1 of only a couple states that denied paying $40/mo to ensure children have food over the summer, when not in school. We have a lot of hungry families here. They rely on school for breakfast and lunch. Without this program, many children will be extremely malnourished by the time the next school year comes around. $40/MONTH?!? Yet, she continues to find the funds to fly with her staff to TX on regular occasions, to stick her nose in the immigration mess going on. Although, it's difficult for her not to do a lot of things, because her lips are permanently attached to Trump's a$$.

I would agree with you, however, under Biden and his DOJ the numbers and types of Crimes made up are ever increasing. An example par excellento is the arena of the ATF and its numerous assaults on the 2nd Amendment targeting other wise "Law Abiding Citizens" If the trend continues, against all areas of The Bill of Rights, then you and I and the rest of the Citizenry will have to either consult an Attorney prior to the simplest activity, or have a 10K List of the years Newest Laws and Edicts which will send one to Prison, that did not exist at all 10 - 20 - 30 years ago.

​@@mbblegbwhat twisted BS is that ? People in prison have only one thing in common : They were convicted of a crime . Skin color and age is irrelevant .

I disagree. The money spent to incarcerate prisoners isn't cost effective. It drains state/federal funds....but it's worth it if we want safe communities.

@@sagatuppercut2960 your prisons are privatised so they are running on a profit basis, the prison makes money, the government pays private enterprise. The government doesn't profit, that's not what I said. It's not the point I'm making either. Your legal system (legal not justice) is incentivised to keep a sufficient population to keep the prison system profitable, otherwise they don't make money, they don't run the business and your government then needs to build prison and run them at their own expense and subject to scrutiny from the public. Far easier to put that on an independent external business venture.

awesome.

Someone who actually gets it! Thumbs UP!

yes because it's so difficult to find criminals in an anarcho tyrannical dystopia

Lololololol

Like your virtue signaling rant?

@Quakeboy02 Quakeboy, you’re just a boy. It’s ok that you don’t know what virtue means yet

Bill Clinton introduced many “worst evers.”

That doesn't bother me. Build MORE prisons.

@@sagatuppercut2960 Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Can't happen? I have some bad news for you. Ten Percent of all criminals serving time in prison didn't commit the crime they are serving time for. Best hope you're never in that 10%, huh?

Not always. A lot of bad cops being abusive. Bad DA'S. Bad Judges. Liberal mindsets. Too many people are corrupt. Also there is an incentive to keep the prisons full. Stocks and many companies have invested interest in some prisons. A whole system of making money from prisons and this needs to stop.

The problem is actually the private prison system.

If only the world worked the way you think it does.

@@Quakeboy02 It doesn't matter what you or I think , "that's just the way it is " A lower sentence is never appropriate , just ask the victim .

@@whip-its_dad4239 The problem is that when you go down that road, literally everyone winds up in jail.

Actually, most prisons are private now days. And the first priority for a private corporation is to increase their revenue stream by convincing politicians to make the laws every more stringent. It works fine, up until it's people like you, your friends, and your parents who are going to jail for decades for minor crimes.

Sounds like the perfect system.

the civilian class has their money stolen to cover it all,

Bureaucrats and janissaries get paid,

the civilian class has their

money stolen to cover it all,

Taking a tour with security as tour guides one would believe no prison time would be appropriate. But hey, liberals and commies look at things slightly askew.

People have been saying that for centuries. Why should anyone believe you?

That's just stupid. Here's your sign.

Then how is it that 10% of all prisoners are actually innocent of the crime they were convicted for?

The reason they're not letting people out is because the government has contracted to pay for X number of beds in the private prison system, and those beds will damned well be filled, regardless of the cost to the citizens.

Capital punishment might be the solution for the worst of them. ie, within a month or so. Instead of years or decades of appeals.

⁠@@mattr.1887 how many people have been convicted of such an offense who are then released later when new evidence is uncovered? Are you willing to be tried for their murder, since you called for it, if later evidence exonerates them? There’s just no need to kill anybody. There’s enough food, housing, and medicine for everyone. If you’re calling for that, it’s not because feeding an incarcerated person actually takes food from someone else’s mouth. The people exploiting everyone else to enrich themselves are the only ones taking inordinately. The government has no right to kill people when it’s not absolutely necessary to do so. If it takes someone else’s death for you to feel whole, that’s on you to deal with. It should not be the state’s role to appease your bloodlust.

You got it partially right: prisons are part of the correctional system. Your answer also explains why the prison population is expanding as you've completely forgotten about the corrective part of the system and the re-integration of those released back into society.

It's about punishment AND rehabilitation to re-enter society as a productive, law abiding citizen.

If voting had anything to do with policy there would be no illegal immigration.

The problem is that we now have a private prison system which is allowed to spend money on legislators who favor higher fixed prison sentences regardless of age or risk of recidivism. And it's no surprise that things that used to be minor misdemeanors are now felonies.