I'm just tired of the whole idea that throwing people in jail is the best solution for everything.
Okay, you're stupid, and you made bad choices in life for whatever reason and you (currently) have little to offer society. You haven't hurt anybody, you're just a stupid loser with zero self esteem.
To make it better, we're going to throw you in with a bunch of really rotten and violent people where you will get beaten up and/or buttf*cked (that'll increase your self esteem), but we'll tax everybody else to pay for your incarceration, meals and health care.
When you get out, your lack of suitable job skills will be further hampered by a criminal record.
There - We showed your sorry ass! Now you'll become a contributing, worthwhile member of society!! So get to work!
If someone is out there killing and hurting people, or say, taking graft to distribute government jobs to their friends, or something else that DIRECTLY hurts people*, fine , remove them from society and maybe punish them.
But just because someone has made a couple of bad choices in life we throw them in jail? There has to be a better way.
* Once agin, this whole "indirectly hurts people" stuff is a greased 90 degree slope. The classic example of this is the farmer up on the witness stand and the prosecuting attorney is accusing him: "So you admit that you grew the grain that the whiskey company turned into alcohol that my client drank heavily before he went out and ran down five people in his car! You vicious criminal - lock him up!"
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
