Pooks, are you on any mind altering substances right now? I think that you accept just about every policy that the government comes down with as the RIGHT way to do things. 20% of those in prison are there for DRUG related crimes. There is NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION TO LEGISLATE WHAT PEOPLE CHOSE TO PUT INTO THEIR BODIES. I dont give a flying fu*k if they are 12 time repeat offenders for drugs, it should not be a crime.Originally Posted by Pooks
Think about the thousands of laws on the book, do you know all of them? I bet that half the time you commit crimes and dont even know it because the laws are so numerous and so obscure that just about anyone can convict a crime, and sometimes unintentionally. The media and the government has done a great job of convincing you that if you're in jail then you are an evil person unfit to live amongst the rest of the UN-rebellious(sheep) population. What a crock of shit. You can get 10 years for embezzlement, A NON-VIOLENT CRIME. These are draconian sentences which do not fit the crime at all. We need MASSIVE reforms. I would propose 2 year maximum sentences on ALL non-violent crime. It doesn't make any logical sense to steal years and years of a persons life for committing a non-violent crime, no one has been injured.
It's a proven FACT, that higher sentences do NOTHING to prevent crime rates. An unarguable fact.
I have been looking for a statistic on the number of innocent people projected to be incarcerated right now. Look at www.innocenceproject.com, they are group who have many many convictions overturn due to a number of causes, bad evidence, false confessions, bad informants, falsified/incompetent laboratory procedures. Lets for arguments sake alone, say that 2% of the entire inmate population in the country have been wrongfully imprisoned and are actually innocent. That's 2,300 PEOPLE in jail, suffering and being punished for a crime they didnt commit. Maybe that is acceptable to you, but its not to me.
