[Aelia Jusa]

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Originally posted by Morgan_Corbesant:

did you know that tens of billions of dollars are spent EVERY year to keep murderers and the like in prisons, where they live better inside then they did outside? people go to prison, and dont care because alot of them get cable television, three hot meals a day, a place to sleep, books to read, letters from loved ones, hot water for showers, games to play, a yard to work out in, or shoot hoops etc. these people MURDERED and raped people, they should have none of this stuff. i dont want the money that i work hard to earn to go to some asshole who raped and murdered a whole family, including raping the young girls of said family. these "people" are animals, and should be killed, not living in a lap of luxory. if someone commits a crime i can understand something like a county run facility for a little while, but people who commit haneous (spelling)and violent acts like murder and rape just need to be put to death right away. not spend twenty years in prison with appeal after appeal after appeal, just to walk away later on, or be put to death after so long a time, only to die old anyway. my money should be spent on ME and MY family, or families who need help do to disasters and the like. i know about all of this, because i met a guy recently who said he was "reformed" after spending nearly twenty years in prison for killing his wife. he told me about all of the stuff that they did in prison, and it pissed me off to the point that i had to leave.

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People in Australia often complain that people in prisons have it too easy as well. But surely the real punishment of being in prison is lack of freedom. However comfy their bed is, or how reasonable the food is etc, I would think that simply knowing that you are not going to be able to see your family everyday, provide for them, do whatever you want for years and years would counteract any supposed luxuries they may enjoy. You would know that your family would have stigma and shame that you were in prison, that you would have so much trouble finding a job when you were released, that your kids would grow up without you. I doubt whether they sleep on a comfy mattress, or bare boards, or have three hot meals or gruel once a day would really make so much difference to the fact that they are going to be there and not leave for however long their sentence is. But perhaps a concentration camp style setup would be more to your liking? You talk about being in prison for 20 years like it's nothing - that's as long as I have lived! Do you know how many people on death row that have been found to be innocent when using their right to 'appeal after appeal'? If you had your way innocent people would have been killed straight away - and you call this justice.