Where should we put hardened criminals?

I like the idea of making them earn their keep. And I mean hard work. Cable TV would be out of the question and books should be limited in quantity and br quecked about their contents. A believe that everyone should have enough water, but just the minimum that other people at other parts of the world have.

I love the idea. The criminals today are getting three meals a day, tv, books, exercise and visitation from loved ones. How many criminals get free and do another crime just to go back to jail because they can't make it in the real world. Its not fair that they are living in prisons with all these perks. It should be harden life, with no fun at all. I agree send them all to siberia. Then we will see how fast the crime rates will go down.

I have a better idea. We should bring back the old-fashioned "chain-gangs". I don't know about where you live, but a lot of the roads here are in terrible shape. Buying 1,000 shovels and forcing criminals to do the work would be a lot cheaper than buying ONE road grading machine and paying someone to drive it. There are a lot of other jobs they could do cheaper as well. They could also pick up litter beside the roads. They could plant and grow crops (all by hand with no tractors or anything) to help feed prison inmates and the homeless. Make them work no matter how hot or cold it is, and always have something for them to do. There are lots of things in my area that convict labor could be used to accomplish. Unfortunately, the powers that be in our country won't let us make the criminals work...

Having read and watched the movie on how the elite commandos were formed, I wonder if these criminals could be conscripted into these special units and be sent to the Middle East. The country can always give them a second chance to get back their life for services rendered to the country. They will have to go through the rigors of training and every education needed as rehabilitation. For those who fail to make the grade, then they will be used to provide labor in areas like construction, city clean up, maintenance in barracks, police stations or even national parks. Or something they can do to contribute back to the society instead of letting them use their spare time on cable television or computers. As for those whose crimes that cannot be pardoned then I believe it will only be justifiable that they be executed.

Sending them to Siberia is not going to work as long as ACLU and the white house exist. They will come after your a*s for violating harden criminals' constitutional rights and birth rights as Americans.

If criminals are not punished, there seems to be no value for truth and good. Every one acts as if they like. It's a way of spoiling the good too. It's the fear that makes man stop from doing crime and injustice. If the bad are left free, the sate, nation and world goes haywire.

I am sure the state department and all the human rights people would manage to block something like that. Maybe we should build something in a really remote and desolate place in our own country. We would be more likely to get it done.

Either send them there or take all of the luxuries away!! Get rid of the cable, fitness centers, books, etc...Leave them with absolutely nothing to do and barely any food to eat! WE do need to punish them more. One of my uncle's friends is in and out of prison. He said, well I am going back. My uncle said your happy about that? He said yeah, it's free rent and a roof over my head with food too! He said I don't have to pay a thing to live there! That is a big problem if most of them feel the same way. They get out, it's too hard on the outside so they do something to get back in...Sad, but true.

Hardened Criminals needs love and understanding, not restraining.