The biggest misnomer in America today is 'corrections'. Every state has a supposed department of corrections where the only thing that gets 'corrected' is any chance that anyone caught in that system will ever be able to reintegrate himself into society. As a people, we love euphemisms because they help us hide from a truth we are too afraid, or too lazy to confront. So our criminals not longer go to prison, the hoosegow, the clink; they go to 'correctional facilities'. We lock them away and forget them, never really stopping to think 'what happens now?'.
Today's 'correctional facilities' have a lot more in common with our universities than they do with prison, or what we as a people mistakenly believe prison is. It costs on average about $50k a year to attend, depending on the particular campus, and after years of confinement attendees come out worse off that they came in, unable to get or hold a job, dead broke and full of antisocial ideas. The only real difference is that in college students are filled with theoretical knowledge that usually has no real application in the real world, while in the other 'students' come out with hands on experience in a variety of subjects.
The graduates of a correctional facility come out having learned how to manipulate the justice system to their advantage. They learn how to better kill, maim, rape, steal and deal drugs. After all, on the streets, while committing crimes, these lowlifes never had to worry about a cop always looking over their shoulder. In jail not only do they learn how to be more adept social misfits, but they do so under the watchful eye of experienced correctional staff. By the time they get out of jail it becomes a simple thing to rob and kill an innocent person and then walk away, never really having to fear getting caught.
Correctional facilities correct nothing, they warehouse. In these vast institutions, survival of the fittest is a way of life. A newly admitted criminal, must, MUST, become an animal, if he is not one already, in order to survive or risk losing his life, or at the very least becoming someone else's sexual play toy. Some become so good at what they do, are so violent and bloody, and have so little conscience or remorse, that officers look on in dismay dreading the day this institutionally created psychopath will once again be back on the streets with the rest of us. And back on the street they will be, because no matter how bad their original crime, almost everyone, at some point in time, will be released onto an unsuspecting public.
If we truly want to solve our crime problem we must start in the jails. The way we deal with criminals behind bars must radically change. We must stop storing criminals together, let them run loose, and then expect them to on their own find their way to the light. The way must be shown to them, and it falls upon us to do the showing. First step in the right direction would be to bring back punishment. Bring it back with a vengeance. Regardless of what academic elitist bleeding heart retards would like us to believe, punishment works. Not only does it scare the shit out of most lowlife scum but it exacts some measure of retribution in the name of the original victims that landed the scumbags behind bars in the first place.
Let us have canings, whippings, electroshock, and good old fashion boot stompings. Let's bring back chain gangs, bread and water, and dark room month at a time solitary confinement. Some may call these things torture, I call them corrections.
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