More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
More law, less justice.