Get Tough & Smart - How to Start Winning the War on Drug Addiction

If you were given complete power to reform the US prison system, including sentencing, what would you do? First , I would institute judicial corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration for many prisoners. This solution is straight out of the Bible,  Deuteronomy  25:1–3 and was favored by all the presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore. It is inexpensive, repeatable, proven to work and starts rehabilitation without removing the offender from the community. This might cut the prison population in half.  Prison Overcrowding Cure: Judicial Corporal Punishment of Adults Second , to keep kids in school or on the job, eliminate immediate incarceration of offenders, warn the public and shame offenders, I would fit offenders with a metallic collar, with or without electronic enhancement, color-coded per the crime and made heavier or lighter according to the ongoing behavior of the offender. For example, green for crimes of property, yellow for sex offenders, red for violent o...

What does it mean when people say , 'Prisons are for profit in America'? That refers to the private prison industry, which makes money from the warehousing function prisons provide. It does not refer to prison industries, most of which are government-run, lose money, do not provide jobs for all prisoners, and do not allow much private enterprise to operate freely. Prisoners are not entitled to all the employment protection and minimum wages of the free world in the USA, so we ought to return to laissez-faire employment in prisons, allowing private enterprises to pay prisoners a negotiated wage for 60-hour work weeks. Prisoners could make a nest egg, learn how to work a tough job, there would be more money for victims, child support and the state, and everybody could win. Please read How to Create American Manufacturing Jobs and then write a letter to your Congressman! [If prisons made products now exclusively made overseas, organized labor would benefit, too!]