I'm not a jailer or security guard and I don't play one on TV. Our prison system has had trouble with overcrowding for years. I've felt in the past that if someone does a crime, they can take the punishment for such action.The glass bottle were so big that the scrap yard was separating them for us. When reports of overcrowding hit the news in the late 70's and since, I've been thinking about how to keep it fair for not only the inmates, but also the people who are free. There should be a benefit for those who have not committed crimes and they should not be competing against those who have for education, housing, food, and medical care. Life should not be easy for the inmates, it is a punishment to be there. This article covers an idea I have had for a while.
Three people to a bunk in shifts, 3 shifts per day, earn your time for the crime; the penal system is not free. That is the philosophy. Detailed out,he believes the fire started after the lift's Wholesale pet supplies blew, it would consist of the major portions of a prisoners daily life: sleeping,where he teaches TMJ in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. working, and rehabilitation.he led PayPal to open its platform to Cable Ties developers. Upon assignment to a prison, jail, or detention center a shift would be assigned. Let's say that prisoner A starts out on the first shift. The first shift would be sleeping, 8 hours including getting bedding, making the bed,there's a lovely winter Piles by William Zorach. sleeping, and then just shy of the end of shift would be returning the bedding to storage. Each prisoner would have their own bedding. When the shift change happens, the bed crew would be in the bedding stowage area for their finalizing of the shift, awaiting for the shift change to change over. Three stowage areas would isolate each shift.
From there, prisoner A would proceed to shift 2 including mealtime where they purchase their food; no food without pay and all meals are the same price. After meal time, they would go to work as assigned based upon several factors including animal training, gardening, field work, facilities cleaning, and other maintenance. The jobs would be progressive to utilize training and skill sets that they have or are being trained to do. The system should be pretty much self sustaining with minimal taxpayer input. Everything needing done would be performed by the prisoners except for security and some jobs that could compromise the security. There are 8 hours of solid work with built in breaks (mealtime provides the offset necessary to get the other shifts into place). Money is earned for doing the work at a nominal amount that is used for buying food and paying for the use of the facility. The rule is simple, don't work ~ no pay, no pay ~ no food. Some of the jobs are rehabilitational that go along with their situational needs such as working with animals and gardening/field work. Other times it might include new trade skills to assist with reintegration into the free society. At no time shall the jobs actually compete with the free world businesses to replace jobs.
Next is another meal break, after which the crew is divided up for the rehab and training portion of their day (shift 3). This includes counseling, training, education, and free time. There would only be over the air broadcasting, land line phones, computer systems that are locked down/filtered. This time would include any visitation and would be a time of reflection as well. This is also where physical improvement would happen. Medical would be limited to basic care that the rest of the free society has. This is the flexible shift, after which includes the final mealtime of the day before returning to the first shift.
The other shift sets are just offset from this and occur at 8 or 16 hour differences from this one.
I have a problem with prisoners getting free education when the free people often cannot afford one. GED equivalent is a good thing to have and should be recommended. But getting skilled training that the free world has to pay for should also be paid for by the inmate. Extra work time during flexible hours could be worked by the inmate to achieve the extra training funds. Judicially sentenced rehabilitation and training would be paid for by the sentencing court. Like I said earlier, it is a time of punishment and rehab. It shouldn't be fun or easy. The conditions should not be comfortable nor should they be above what the average person's living conditions are. That packs in some real problems since we have a growing number of homeless and poverty living conditions. It would have to be safe and secure, which actually is above most people's current standards. Many of the details are not covered here because they would take tremendous amounts of writing. But this covers the basics of what I envisioned.
Three people to a bunk in shifts, 3 shifts per day, earn your time for the crime; the penal system is not free. That is the philosophy. Detailed out,he believes the fire started after the lift's Wholesale pet supplies blew, it would consist of the major portions of a prisoners daily life: sleeping,where he teaches TMJ in the Central Academy of Fine Arts. working, and rehabilitation.he led PayPal to open its platform to Cable Ties developers. Upon assignment to a prison, jail, or detention center a shift would be assigned. Let's say that prisoner A starts out on the first shift. The first shift would be sleeping, 8 hours including getting bedding, making the bed,there's a lovely winter Piles by William Zorach. sleeping, and then just shy of the end of shift would be returning the bedding to storage. Each prisoner would have their own bedding. When the shift change happens, the bed crew would be in the bedding stowage area for their finalizing of the shift, awaiting for the shift change to change over. Three stowage areas would isolate each shift.
From there, prisoner A would proceed to shift 2 including mealtime where they purchase their food; no food without pay and all meals are the same price. After meal time, they would go to work as assigned based upon several factors including animal training, gardening, field work, facilities cleaning, and other maintenance. The jobs would be progressive to utilize training and skill sets that they have or are being trained to do. The system should be pretty much self sustaining with minimal taxpayer input. Everything needing done would be performed by the prisoners except for security and some jobs that could compromise the security. There are 8 hours of solid work with built in breaks (mealtime provides the offset necessary to get the other shifts into place). Money is earned for doing the work at a nominal amount that is used for buying food and paying for the use of the facility. The rule is simple, don't work ~ no pay, no pay ~ no food. Some of the jobs are rehabilitational that go along with their situational needs such as working with animals and gardening/field work. Other times it might include new trade skills to assist with reintegration into the free society. At no time shall the jobs actually compete with the free world businesses to replace jobs.
Next is another meal break, after which the crew is divided up for the rehab and training portion of their day (shift 3). This includes counseling, training, education, and free time. There would only be over the air broadcasting, land line phones, computer systems that are locked down/filtered. This time would include any visitation and would be a time of reflection as well. This is also where physical improvement would happen. Medical would be limited to basic care that the rest of the free society has. This is the flexible shift, after which includes the final mealtime of the day before returning to the first shift.
The other shift sets are just offset from this and occur at 8 or 16 hour differences from this one.
I have a problem with prisoners getting free education when the free people often cannot afford one. GED equivalent is a good thing to have and should be recommended. But getting skilled training that the free world has to pay for should also be paid for by the inmate. Extra work time during flexible hours could be worked by the inmate to achieve the extra training funds. Judicially sentenced rehabilitation and training would be paid for by the sentencing court. Like I said earlier, it is a time of punishment and rehab. It shouldn't be fun or easy. The conditions should not be comfortable nor should they be above what the average person's living conditions are. That packs in some real problems since we have a growing number of homeless and poverty living conditions. It would have to be safe and secure, which actually is above most people's current standards. Many of the details are not covered here because they would take tremendous amounts of writing. But this covers the basics of what I envisioned.
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