Do you feel sorry for people who have to go to jail?

it depends on the reason. Too much government and hysteria is making a mockery of our court system in making just sentences in my opinion.

If they're going to jail for some ridiculous, victimless crime (like possession) yes. Not if they're guilty of an actual crime with an actual victim.

I say Good Riddance. Unless they're truly innocent. It's not hard to follow the law to a certain extent :o

Seems it's a lot harder to "follow the law" in the US than in your country or in any other Western country (I live in France). You probably don't know that the incarceration rate in America is FIVE TO TEN TIMES HIGHER than in our countries;
They have a very prosperous private "prison industrial complex".

I was answering in terms of my life, and my country. But I still believe it can be done. I have no sympathy for them.

Its all about perception. sure they did something bad but by who's standards? My ideals are different from most people if not everybody noone is the same but everyone should be equal. If they act upon what they view as right and moral then who are you to judge them. would the world be chaotic and anarchist in some sense yes, but that is how we are supposed to exist. so personally i believe all Jails shouldn't exist they are pointless and meaningless devices for people to feel like they have power over one another. and to enforce a certain ideal among the people.

So if someone murdered your child, you wouldn't want them to go to jail?

I don't because I have made it almost 62 freakin' years without ending up in the slammer. And if I can do it, anybody can.

I find though generally speaking (I know this going to piss some people off, but oh well) that the average clown who gets busted and ends up in jail....has the IQ of a plant. But they will try to convince you that they have the world by the nads...and "ain't nobody got nothin; on them...and they being dere' is a mistake, and dere lawyer gonna square it away real quick".....a couple of years later and their lawyer still be working on it....

Four simple rules for a life of freedom:
1. Shut your pie hole in public cuz NO-ONE cares what you think.
2. Keep your nasty little hands to your self at all times.
3. If someone actually asks your opinion...act stupid and say nothing, its a trap.
4. If you have trouble with the previous 3 rules, stay the hell home and watch TV, and never leave your house, apartment, trailer house, closet or mommies house.
5, this one is extra, and important: STOP THINKING YOU ARE AN F'ING MASTERMIND AND EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET IS STUPIDER THAN YOU!!!

When in doubt, read rules 1 through 3 over and over and over again til you fall asleep.

that would depend on the crime someone going for doing something right or just yes i do but any criminal that does a crime and whines should have their mouths sown shut

It depends on the circumstances that landed them there. The legal system is not perfect.

Do the crime do the time .

Not they did something wrong.

Only if they're truly innocent and don't belong there. Otherwise the true criminals got what they deserve when they chose their path. Choose the behavior, then live with the consequences.

yes some offenses are not jail worthy just victims of circumstances and no available or competent representation. More legal mumbo jumbo

thanks to my dad being an idiot and going jail for the same thing over and over and over i kinda wore out my tolerance

I'm sorry.

No,If they deserve it,keep them there.

if theyre innocent or the crime isnt real bad then yes. but someone who's guilty for a hanous crime absolutely not. my advice to everyone in jail is dont drop the soap haha.

It would seem that rape in prisons is not against your laws.

Only if they go to jail for something they did not do, other than that LET THEM SUFFER!!!

Do you suggest bringing back corporal punishment?

If you are talking about in the schools...I say NO!!! I prefer to do the spanking in the vincinity of my own house, I would not trust a teacher or any other adult like that with my child. They can realy to me the behavior and I will deal with it. That is a problem too. Teachers and parents need to communicate with each other!!!

I agree.
Actually, I was talking about judicial corporal punishment (which I don't approve of).

OH...well my answer to that is NO as well, it seems whildish with regards to the crimes committed by these people.

If they're innocent and convicted in error, definitely. Otherwise, no, not at all.

No, like me they know what kind of behavior will land a person in jail its their choice.

alot are jailed wrongly and now they have contracts with independant prisons and gaurantee them to keep them full so now they give out prison terms like candy it is big buisness

The notorious American "prison industrial complex".

Right...the land of the free..lol..yet we have the most people incarcerated than anywhere in the world

Some don't deserve to be 'fleeced' as they are.

Some I do on some, others jail is too good for them.

I have to worry about my kids and making sure they are so scared to do wrong that they never get in trouble. But what drives me nuts is Democrates keep making more rules and penelties just to take more money from my family.

Sorry to intrude, but HULA GIRL, just below, feels sorry for innocent people who have to go to jail. She must be a heart-bleeding liberal.

Depends if they are innocent or not.

Especially in your country.


Your incarceration rate is FIVE TO TEN TIMES HIGHER than in other Western countries.


Are you so much more evil than us, or is your judicial system too often run by the prison-industrial complex?

Nah....we just have a lot of stupid, emotional and impulsive boneheads running loose on the streets.... Most of them do the same stupid crap over and over and never learn that they will always get caught.....or they want to get caught because they are too stupid or lazy to work, and they get three hots and a cot in jail....

I've often thought our system was too freaking lenient!

We need to go back to the stocks, flogging, keel hauling, public hangings, and take air conditioning, libraries, conjugal visits, TV, and clean laundry away from them. Treat them like criminal scum...make their life a living hell.... Kind f like the frenchies "Devils Island"....tee hee.

No "clean laundry"??? Please think about the poor female and male correctional officers. You would "make thei life a living hell"!

lol

Sorry...I didn't think of that....and that would make for a nasty workplace!!

There's always the possibility that they might be made to run around in their birthday suit.

Ooooooh, bad visual, bad visual.........ugh......LOL! Give them at least a diaper.