Monday, April 25, 2011

Revolving Door.

Todays Criminal Justice system has become a revolving door of rewards for the criminaly inclined. Most law abiding citizens look at the correctional system as a punishment for those who commit crimes. That they are locked behind bars and punished for there crime. Instead the truth of the matter is that they are sent to a correctional facility where they are guarnteed a bed, three hot meals, a roof over there head. Also the vast majority of inmates enjoy free cable, a tv in there room, coffee maker, a game system and a stereo. They never have to work, they given educational oppertunites that most people will never have and all this is supported with tax payer money.

The sad fact of the matter is that most of the criminaly inclined are treated way better than our vets are that are coming back from over seas defending our country. This is a system of rewards for commiting a crime. We need to reform the criminal justice system so that it is no longer a reward and it becomes a real punishment. As long as we treat criminals better than vets crime will continue to go up. We need to make prison a strong deterent.