Every one of these knotheads ought to spend a month in general population, and then I'll ask him if he thinks it's such a country club. We need to start addressing many of our social problems, like drug addiction, prostitution, juvenile delinquency, etc. Like home detention or halfway houses or live-in work programs, like Job Corps, Conservation Corps, etc. For instance, homeless people are now being railroaded into prison because communities don't want to deal with them. This is outrageous.
Hard time ought to be for the barest minimum of hard-core offenders.
Ordinary Americans need to know that prisons have become big business. In other words, Americans who stand to benefit economically from any status quo in prisons are becoming more and more entrenched. Building and maintaining prisons is a billion- dollar business, and is more and more subcontracted to the private sector. Private prisons also operate beyond the reach of most civil-rights law applying to inmates. Our citizens have a right to know this happening, and a right to decide whether they want an economy that has a growing dependency on prison labor.