tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777750410141759635.post-818578490712581262008-03-04T16:34:00.000-05:002008-03-04T16:34:00.000-05:002008-03-04T16:34:00.000-05:00Prisons are big business. Big business needs a product. Prisoners are the product. One participant at the New Baptist Covenant session on justice said half the counties in New York would go bust if prisoners were all rehabilitated and the cells emptied. We'll never slow this process until prisons and prison building stops being big business. Second, we need to seriously reconsider the penalty for crimes of personal behavior, both whether or not there actually is a "crime" committed when a person ingests a drug, and the length of punishment for such crimes. Third, we need to come to a mindset as Christians that it is better to spend $27,000 a years to rehabilitate someone in a community setting, than to spend that amount keeping a harmless person locked up. The number of people in prison in this country is a crime itself.Normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16130691153006885137noreply@blogger.com