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The bottom part especially, Not sure if it is a good idea for juveniles though. When I was 17 I was in confinement for 90 days.Should we ban solitary confinement?
Not IMO.
I believe that prison should not be a way-station for criminals. Currently it is a place where they can become organized into gangs, trained by peers in criminal techniques, and sometimes abused in terrible ways before being released back into society.
I am a firm supporter of the old Pennsylvania System...:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_prison_systems#The_Pennsylvania_system
...only modified so that each prisoner does have human contact; but only with guards, social workers, education and training staff, clergy of their choice, and family visitation. Absolutely NO contact of ANY kind with other prisoners.
Prison should be a place someone wants to avoid at all costs when they get out, not a place to go take a break between criminality while reacquainting themselves with other "peers."
It should also be a safe place to live while serving one's sentence.
This should be coupled with vocational training programs at half-way houses after incarceration, and the right not to have to declare a criminal record after completing a sentence when applying for work.
I have not been arrested since 2005 and completed that sentence (incarceration/probation) in 2008. Not one bit of trouble since. Served my debt to society but the deck remains stacked in terms of employability, none the less. After 3 years or so with no trouble, the record should (in fairness) be wiped.
With the exception of pedophiles and rapist.