General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat does this part of the SOTU speech mean?
There is no elaboration on that elsewhere in the speech, nor does it seem to reflect any past statements or policies- what is being referenced there?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)I will check that out.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)while talking about it being a partisan problem. Figgers...
I suspect this means more of a push toward prison privatization-- private enterprise is so much better at this sort of thing, dontcha know...
Historically, every 25-30 years or so someone makes the discovery that what we're doing in prison is all wrong. If we lock 'em up and throw away the key, it makes more hardened criminals if and when they get out. If we try rehabilitation, they just fake it and go back to the life when they get out. The pattern repeats and we never come up with anything new.
Prison labor is cheap, and while we have few chain gangs around these days, stuff like phone banks and order filling, light manufacturing, etc., is quite profitable. Why let the state or county have the profits?
atreides1
(16,106 posts)It's a carrot extended to prison reformers...only he has no intention of following through! Hard to believe that the same man who wanted to execute five men who turned out to be innocent of the crime they were charged with, is in anyway serious about prison reform!
Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)And this will ensure that former inmates become highly-sought minimum wage employees"
DeminPennswoods
(15,294 posts)but for different reasons. Liberals, Dems, etc want prison reform to keep it from ruining the lives of people who are convicted of things like drug possession/use. Republicans want it to keep from interfering in the lives of white collar criminals. I believe the Kochs are behind pushing this idea in Republican circles and, iirc, the genesis was the white collar conviction of one of the brothers.