For sure prisons are necessary. But the whole industrie around them espacially in US that really sucks. All about money making, let the people live in fear and control them through dumb actions like the war on drugs. What a pitty. Then the same guys which organize the war on drugs and terroism fill the pockets with money, earn power and play geostarteigical games with that. Hope that will end soon. Pinned it on my board. Had a few good laughs as always ;-)
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absolutely, you can't have incentives that align with maximising the amount of people locked up and minimizing the cost of running the place
its a recipe for disaster!
I'm not convinced prisons are still necessary. The technology is high enough that people can be isolated electronically, virtually, using house arrest. I don't see prison as being necessary except for the most dangerous, such as terrorists and people who are set out to destroy society. Most prisoners aren't set out to destroy society and aren't violent.
My point is consider the level of surveillance we get put under? If we are building a panopticon why do we need to keep prisons when that is looking like the current and future?