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Do prisons make you feel safe?

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Yes
9%
No
91%
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Susan Traynor

Because prisons are there to make money so they do not care about the inmates

11:11 AM | April 5, 2016

Armani McDonald

It’s a detention center not a rehabilitation center. The cruelest get crueler and do what the ey want the ones who change or are soft in the first place get eaten alive the in between either sink or swim and lose themselves forever.

11:11 AM | April 5, 2016

Anonymous

Keep dangerous people away.

11:11 AM | April 5, 2016

Ariana

I think it is good to have a place where mass murderers can be that is away from innocent people. However, there are innocent people who get convicted of crimes they did not commit and are sent to prisons and jails. Also, there can be some bad actors in those prisons who do not care about the rehabilitation of criminals and may cause even more harm. I don't have any prisons near me so I don't think about it on a day-to-day basis, but I believe that prison reform should be in the national discussion because of the injustices that are allowed to fester in them.

11:11 AM | April 5, 2016

Shauna Marie Driscoll

prisons don't decrease crime rates, and those who are sent to prison are more likely to recommit. we need to focus on rehabilitation or nothing will ever change. prisons are only meant to carve out a chunk of the voting population

11:11 AM | April 5, 2016

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