There should be no death penalty. Period. Whenever a person dies, they take all of the knowledge they have with them; shielding accomplices.
Whenever a mass murderer dies, the trail goes cold for missing persons.
Whenever a person dies for mutilating a specific individual, they can in no way repay that family for their losses.
I do not want to PUNISH criminals, I want them to be ethically put to work to provide useful recompense for deeds done.
Southern states still fraudulently incarcerate people and indirectly force them into basic slave labor. Yes, this is still being done today. Fayette County, Alabama creates laws and business conditions that promote ADHD victims to commit crimes. They are then imprisoned and rented out.
Alcoholic, or ADHD Victim
The concept of renting prisoners out isn't bad, it is bad that the wrong people are going to prison because of corrupt county administration. An ethical control system needs to be put in place so that the right people are put in jail. And those who are mentally handicapped are provided treatment and training to lead productive lives.
It used to be that mental institutions housed thousands of patients, now they only house the extremely impaired, or those that are willing to pay for their own stay. I will bet that over half of all inmates have some form of untreated ADHD.
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We need to deal with the seed of the problems of the criminal system, not its symptoms.
