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Do lifers lives matter?

Do lifers have a right to humane treatment?

  • No -- I support Capital Punishment.

    Votes: 7 41.2%
  • No -- I support US Penal System.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes -- Canada and Scandinavia have the best System.

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • Total voters
    17
According to Table C14, 23% of Canada's prison (not jail) inmates are lifers. That is 3,011 people. Of them 95.7% are guilty of murder.

It costs $151K per maximum security inmate per year for upkeep according to Table B3, even though most of this money returns as correctional officers salary.

Most inmates are kept in humane conditions. Other countries have much worse conditions -- in Iran most of those guilty of murder are executed, in US South they are kept in cells which can heat up to 120 Farenheit in summers. Most US prisons have no conditioning.

I support the death penalty only for some few cases of treason, and if the Canadians are spending $150K per year then they are doing it wrong.

Which would not shock me in the least.
 
I support the death penalty only for some few cases of treason, and if the Canadians are spending $150K per year then they are doing it wrong.

Actually, most of this money returns as a salary.
 
70% of those who reply agree with Canadian System -- even though they have much more humane system their crime rate is lower then in USA.

Socialism does work. Not Totalitarian Communism, not Capitalism but Socialism.
 
I honestly don't see the point in keeping confirmed murderers in jail for life without parole. Yes, death is expensive but so is giving them basic necessities for years. Plus very few Americans a year are executed.
 
Anyone convicted of a felony - regardless of who they are - should automatically have his citizenship revoked and that of any children he has.

That person, along with his family, should be deported to a US territory outside of the 50 states and, as non-citizens, they should never be permitted to return.

This should apply to ALL felony offenses.
 
Anyone convicted of a felony - regardless of who they are - should automatically have his citizenship revoked and that of any children he has.

That person, along with his family, should be deported to a US territory outside of the 50 states and, as non-citizens, they should never be permitted to return.

This should apply to ALL felony offenses.

That certainly won't catch my vote and I will speak against a politician that demands it.
 
That certainly won't catch my vote and I will speak against a politician that demands it.

You're all about felons, are you?

Citizenship ought to be a privilege, not a right. I'm all for increasing immigration, but then we need to ship out the Americans who are a drain on society. One in, one out.
 
Do liver-lovers' lives matter?
 
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