No, mainly because our country has not had it in my lifetime and Prison seems like a greater torture method than death endless time to be locked up and be confined to a small area.
That said I do think I would support a prison fight club like in a few movies if convicts really want to risk it all in a weird way.
Prisons are a method for transferring wealth to the prison community supporters. How? Through taxing the free people to pay for prisoner support. Most of the tax money goes to those who run the prisons and supply inmate care products and services. The inmates receive little, and in a good prison, receive way more than they need for living.
Make punishments to match the crime. If there is murder done by the guilty, punish him with death. If there is foul play when convicting him so that an innocent person is convicted and executed, execute those who did the foul play... etcetera... until all the guilty are executed.
Why must the people who were harmed by the criminals support them in prison? Citizens were harmed by the criminals once. Now they have to pay to support them for life? Very unfair idea.
I'm more of a redemptive law sort of person than a punishment one although I'm not against having prisoners do some hard labor to contribute to society from those closed walls in my opinion, I still don't see why governments don't try to make all prisons self sufficient in the first place free labour that has no opportunity to get out of the prison system with all the time in the world, now that is made for milking and to those with a chance of parole due to good behaviour and serving their time a skillset would be useful if they get reintegrated instead of bouncing back into jail.
Good old workyards where they need to knit clothing, breaking rocks under strict supervision to sell gravel, making farm feed to sustain themselves and sell to the locals, raising chickens etc their is a lot of productivity to be had from this labour than sitting them in a bloody cell 23 hours of the day and making them mooch off the taxpayers dime.
We complain because the public system drains our incomes and takes it from tax revenue. Some people argue for privitization of prison and it's a damn good investment with people taking that route for profit but I feel that if government put in some decent labour regulations countries could have a new market for cheap goods and not need to outsource this stuff, bim bam boom problem addressed self-sufficient prisons serve us all following the maxim you do the crime you pay the time.
(Heck with all the exported labour now a-days a convict trying to sell you car insurance working at a call center seems just as good as outsourcing it to India lol)
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/profiting-from-prison-labour/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/08/prisoners-call-centre-fired-staffA business is bussing in inmates from an open prison 21 miles away and paying them only £3 a day to work in its call centre.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed that dozens of prisoners from Prescoed prison in Monmouthshire, south Wales, had done "work experience" for at least two months at a rate of 40p an hour in the private company's telephone sales division in Cardiff.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289Profits are so good that now there is a new business: importing inmates with long sentences, meaning the worst criminals. When a federal judge ruled that overcrowding in Texas prisons was cruel and unusual punishment, the CCA signed contracts with sheriffs in poor counties to build and run new jails and share the profits. According to a December 1998 Atlantic Monthly magazine article, this program was backed by investors from Merrill-Lynch, Shearson-Lehman, American Express and Allstate, and the operation was scattered all over rural Texas. That state’s governor, Ann Richards, followed the example of Mario Cuomo in New York and built so many state prisons that the market became flooded, cutting into private prison profits.
After a law signed by Clinton in 1996 – ending court supervision and decisions – caused overcrowding and violent, unsafe conditions in federal prisons, private prison corporations in Texas began to contact other states whose prisons were overcrowded, offering “rent-a-cell” services in the CCA prisons located in small towns in Texas. The commission for a rent-a-cell salesman is $2.50 to $5.50 per day per bed. The county gets $1.50 for each prisoner.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/forced-prison-labour-carries-benefits-and-risks-expert-1.656049Better to make em suffer doing labor he-he
