First Step: Pro-Cop, Pro-Borders, Pro-Criminal Justice Reform

I am not LE but grew up in LE family. Living conditions should be clean, functional but bare bones. If an inmate tears something up he does without.

It is supposed to be a deterrent. However, if people come out worse than they went in...it becomes a revolving door. We need to give the opportunity for rehabilitation and education too.

After giving the matter some thought, I've decided that incarceration in jail/prison after conviction should be punishment, not just confinement. I therefore agree with the Japanese method of imprisonment: Spartan conditions, three plain meals per day, and eight hours per day of hard labor (making big ones into little ones) while contemplating the errors of one's ways. No law libraries, TV, gyms, etc. I also think that parole is crap, and that if a convict is not rehabilitated enough to stay out of trouble (and jail) after their first jail sentence, they should receive long sentences or life imprisonment for any subsequent offenses. I also believe that public humiliation for minor crimes will serve as a deterrent. Too often criminals (especially young ones) think they can hide behind anonymity, but if they were put out on the street corner or a chain gang, subject to public ridicule, that might deter them from doing the crime at all. Like one respondent said, there are different sentencing guidelines in different states, and even within different jurisdictions within states. That would have to be fixed. I should probably never be allowed to govern or administer justice! :-)