Friday, April 16, 2010

Solitary Confinement, doe.

If I were to draft a law regulating the use of Solitary Confinement I would have a limit to the amount of time a prisoner can spend there. I don"t think years on end are okay, I think that is cruel.

I also think that is not going to help the prisoner when they get out. If I were a prison official I would put some restrictions to what they are allowed to do. I find it strange that this power is held by a group of individuals and they can do whatever they want with it and are not controlled or monitored by their higher authorities.

If the prisoner wanted to challenge their solitary confinement I think they should be allowed to take it to court. I don't think its okay that prison officials should be able to just do whatever they want when they want to and no one else even has to know.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Gangs Doe..!

I think in order to decrease gangs and the numbers of gang members, we need to stop the activity at its roots. If we make dropping out of school, for kids in those situations, or even all kids harder it would keep them from daytime illegal or gang related activity. Also if we had more youth facilities for teens to go to so they arent on the streets and night. However gangs will never go away. They will always be around. Forget the flyers, though that is pretty funny! I think they should for sure keep up with youth centers though. Thumbs Up!!