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jails should be more widely known as schools
some correctional facilities are becoming a business or already are a business, the future of these businesses depends on more people to commit crimes.
the idea here is to give incentives for correctional facility businesses to fully rehabilitate people into society by means of ensuring they don't re-offend.
one incentive in western society is money.
while giving money to one of these businesses from the tax-payer for each individual that doesn't re-offend may seem like a good idea, there are many problems with this idea. one of the problems with giving individualised incentives is that the future of the business would still depend on repeat or new offenders.
however, if the tax-payer were to give incentives to a correctional facility business based on how successful it was based on statistics, eventually the rehabilitation facility would effectively be a school.
this idea was inspired by a conversation i had with Colleen Steen.
EDIT: the main premise of the thread was intended to be an effective realistic way to utilise the commercialisation of prisons, and in the process improve society, but perhaps i didn't word the topic's title very well.
instead, i have changed the topic title to better suit the conversation, just as Salim Solaiman suggested.
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Sunil Verma
Colleen Steen 500+
I also think that generally politicians and bureaucrats are not a direct threat to the safety of society. Their crime is usually corruption, as you say. So, rather than putting them behind bars, perhaps serving the community in some way would be more appropriate? What do you think?
Sunil Verma
We all know education plays a major role in building ones character but I guess there are other basic life lessons that are missing in our educational system or they are not instilled properly. Highly qualified educated Wall Street Bankers should be at least taught to not to be so greedy.
I guess my point is criminals should be punished according to their crime however if they are not going to spend all their life behind bars they should be at least given some good lessons in moral values along with some professional training to survive outside the jail compound.
Colleen Steen 500+
Unfortunately, many who are incarcerated for crime, come from backgrounds that have not taught them some very basic beneficial life lessons. This fact is no excuse for their behavior, but if they don't learn a different behavior, they are going to continue to offend.
I agree that criminals should be punished, and/or given some good life lessons according to their crime. If they are going to be released back into society, which most of them are, it would be beneficial to all of us to have them be more productive members of our societies.