Comments on: The Illusion of Community Sentences

By: Why We Write Carceral Nation | Carceral Nation

Why We Write Carceral Nation | Carceral Nation — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:13:34 +0000

[...] making tougher laws. We will break under our continued notion of an ever-expanding — “criminalization threat” — and what is risked in that breaking is our economy and our communal morality: [...]

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:51:48 +0000

I think that’s true, Anne. Do we really want a carceral economy, though?

By: ANNE

ANNE — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:37:24 +0000

There’s money in jails. Big biz. Make more criminals to help the local prison economy.

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:13:58 +0000

As terrible as it sounds, Gordon, the criminal element in America is more poor than uneducated and it is usually the poor that die of ill health younger, serve in wars as front line troops and they don’t have the means for elder care. Most of those examples lead to an early death.
While the tide of national healthcare programs raise all ships, that also includes a healthier criminal element who are able to survive longer and propagate more dastardly deeds upon us all.
It’s a vicious circle of undesirable trade offs that, it seems, appear to only end in the building of more prisons.

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:57:23 +0000

It seems sad that there’s no way to just, I don’t know, properly educate to avoid increases in crime.