How do you *generally* view people who've committed crimes?

[Bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Violent criminals deserved to be punished. Rapists, murderers, carjackers, lock them up. Smoke pot? You should never be in prison for that. Instead of jailing drug users, have mandatory rehab.

As a Lib I totally agree with you.

We also need to stop locking up drug offenders.
The amount of people who were locked up in the 1980's "War on Drugs" and given felony convictions (especially to minorities) is insane.

[Bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by Halcyon18

]b]I chose the 2nd option. 15-25% of inmates have psychopathic tendencies, so the other 75-85% still have a conscience. If we could tap into that conscience, then maybe we could fix them.[/b] As for the psychopaths, I think they need to be locked up until we figure out a cure for psychopathy, or at the very least, we should teach them that being a law-abiding citizen would be in their own self-interests.

Here is the problem with rehabilitation though....we have turned our prisons over to private corporations so their focus is not about that but just to supervise them.

It's quite sad we have one of the largest prison populations in the world.

[Packard fan]

Originally Posted by Taratova

All different levels of crimes. Serial killers don't get any sympathy from me. Raping and killing women and children. Let them fry.

Now if someone is shop lifting because they are hungry , different story all together.

Agreed.

Especially if people were stealing food, water and generators after a big disaster like Hurricane Maria and, rescue was weeks or longer away.