Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Phil Bryant Proposes Bad, Un-Christian Idea
Yes, we need to fight crime, but a two strikes and you go to prison for life policy doesn't won't particularly help.
It will expand the number of people in prison and saddle Mississippi's taxpayers with their upkeep for at least decades.
Set prison sentences can have the same deterring effect without senselessly adding far more cost to an already strained budget.
It also doesn't allow for the option of redemption which goes against the Christian values of many in this state.
It's bad policy and he shouldn't be put in place to support bad policies just because they sound good in a campaign commercial.
When you "lock 'em up" there are consequences. We and Phil Bryant should consider those before reflexively choosing that option.
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California put in place a three strikes law where the 3rd strike didn't even have to be something major.
ReplyDeleteNow they spend more on inmates that higher education.
The prisons are so overcrowded that they even with sending folks to many private prisons they had a federal order placed on them pretty much saying that they have to figure out who to let out early.
So faced with the same problem would we keep the drug dealers in jail, or the rapists, or those convicted of gun crimes, or child predators?
"no tolerance for lawyers who gets them light sentences" ???
ReplyDeleteAre we going to put the lawyers in jail for life too?