Sunday, December 18, 2011

Super jail

My idealized prison system would be one like Super Jail from the appropriately named show SuperJail. One where criminals are ensnared and transported to by a flying deathbot. Then subjected to a hellish land where they are frequently maimed or murdered in prison bloodbaths frequently due to the Jailbot's homicidal tendencies and the Warden's miscalculated plans. For the sake of the topic I will put away my idealization of a prison system for something more rendered in reality and feasibility. Prisons definitely should exist, so we can house the horrors of society. We can't kill them all because we probably can't afford the body bags and as a society we can not bank on black and white morality. A murderer of the worst and most proved kind should have his or her life taken as well. A thief should be jailed and stripped of the stolen goods and fined. Criminals should be doing time. Time is the ultimate punishment or currency as it can not be payed back. It's not buyable or sellable, you have it for as long as you are afforded it by Father Time or Flying Spaghetti Monster. Time affords the existing with rotting. Murder should get the most time. The most vile of murderers and body counts should be given life in prison or the injection. Murderers of different wrongs should be given time appropriate to their wrongs for less or more. Thieves of anything should be given a moderate amount of time. I figure a thief taking belongings and property is redeemable. A fair sentence should be awarded based on the amount stolen and even none if the crime is quite mundane. A fine could substitute a sentence for small thefts. There are exceptions for grand thefts such as Madoff's schemes. I wonder, if technology arises could he get the necessary cybernetic enhancements and gene therapy to live beyond he sentence and get out of jail? Of course those are only dreams of the future but it's a pondering thought due to my interest in future technological advancements and transhuamism. Rapists the most vile of vile should be given the time and treatment of murderers and given a lot of time behind bars. Many crimes are given fair justice in the prison system and I feel no reason to change them. The only problem I see is the current apprehension and process we apprehend criminals. It's severely flawed and poorly vitalized. I do think we should give some criminals of extremely good behavior and of petty crime an early release. If they are fit and properly evaluated I don't see too much harm in letting them go. Certainly murderers and sex offenders wouldn't be let go early. I figure it's better they be subjected to the possibly more hellish real world then being in the penal system sucking from Uncle Sam's good will.

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