I don't think this is a yes or no question. Unfortunately, poverty, abuse, substance abuse etc. damage some people early on, and they need to be in some institution. This is a minority of current prisoners, to be sure. But we need some facility/treatment/place for psychopaths. I say this from the experience of representing men convicted of murder and sentenced to death in my state.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Tiffany Campo
Prisons do not make me feel safe because they do nothing to shape the face of crime in the outside and because I think we have a real problem with humans being abused at the hands of the state.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Raquel Boton
They have had no effect on substationally reducing crime, the prisons are full of people who have committed crimes that I do not feel threaten me to begin with, and they only target a certain type of criminals.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Bud Conlin
The carceral state only serves to beat folks down and creates us vs them.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
John Roso
Putting others in the place called "away" does not prevent the norms of our society from being reproduced.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Anonymous
I'm more scared of the police
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Meghan Salvon
They do not make a difference, and there is a high rate of recidivism.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Seth Pitman
I don't know how powerful they are as a deterrent for crime, violent or otheriwse
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Safiya Driskell
I don't see a direct connection between my personal safety and prisons. I feel like there are all kinds of violencea that I worry about as a black woman, my blood turns to ice every time I get pulled over by a police officer. Prisons don't do much to fix those aspects of personal safety that I am most concerned about.
Anonymous
Discrimination
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Robin Kirk
I don't think this is a yes or no question. Unfortunately, poverty, abuse, substance abuse etc. damage some people early on, and they need to be in some institution. This is a minority of current prisoners, to be sure. But we need some facility/treatment/place for psychopaths. I say this from the experience of representing men convicted of murder and sentenced to death in my state.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Tiffany Campo
Prisons do not make me feel safe because they do nothing to shape the face of crime in the outside and because I think we have a real problem with humans being abused at the hands of the state.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Raquel Boton
They have had no effect on substationally reducing crime, the prisons are full of people who have committed crimes that I do not feel threaten me to begin with, and they only target a certain type of criminals.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Bud Conlin
The carceral state only serves to beat folks down and creates us vs them.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
John Roso
Putting others in the place called "away" does not prevent the norms of our society from being reproduced.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Anonymous
I'm more scared of the police
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Meghan Salvon
They do not make a difference, and there is a high rate of recidivism.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Seth Pitman
I don't know how powerful they are as a deterrent for crime, violent or otheriwse
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
Safiya Driskell
I don't see a direct connection between my personal safety and prisons. I feel like there are all kinds of violencea that I worry about as a black woman, my blood turns to ice every time I get pulled over by a police officer. Prisons don't do much to fix those aspects of personal safety that I am most concerned about.
10:10 AM | April 15, 2016
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