Have you ever really thought about the concept of Prison or Jail as we know it today?
In today’s world, most of us don’t care about prisons unless we or someone we know has been affected by it. We are good citizens, so why should we bother?
Well we should definetly bother because in most countries, prison is of public matter, not private (or its privatized but it’s still the government who is paying and actually taxpayers are funding the profits the government makes out of these privatized prisons). What does this mean? This means that the taxes you pay, the hardly and honestly earned salary you get will be partially used to finance these prisons! Meaning it will be used to feed, cloth and shelter people who have committed crimes in your own society. Even the people affected by those crime will have to pay for their offender. Strange, no? But well it’s for a greater purpose, keeping our criminals locked down and keeping our streets safe… is it?
Because if you think about it twice these criminals are punished by being fed and housed for free. Their only “punishment” is to be excluded from society and occasionally doing some community work.
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