Decisions
Our prisons are overcrowded, expensive, and full of people who really shouldn't be there. As an MBA, I have worked out some alternatives for discussion:
- Option #1 - Re-engineering, as discussed here.
- Option #2 - Outsourcing.
- Option #3 - Adopt global best practices.
posted by The Front at 8:12 PM
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Nearly 1% of our population is behind bars. Madness. Particularly because putting someone in prison is a highly effective, highly expensive way to train someone to be a criminal.
One of our correspondents has been doing yeoman work for many years in juvenile detention issues.
In a sentence, so to speak, a plan: increased certainty of punishment (re-energizing policing does work), decreased severity, strong separation of minor offenders from criminals, institute community service and integration as PRIMARY justice actions.
In the the Reagan years, severe sentences just kept piling up, at great cost and virtually no benefit. CA's three strikes model was a social and budgetary disaster across the country.
In making the case for mercy, (remember mercy), one must emphasize the goal to create a broad social respect for law as the expression of the community.
When too institutionally foggy (think for-profit prisons, and a long history of imprisoning people for cheap labor pools) and the justice system fails.
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