Courtney Bradshaw
English 1020
Professor Sumner
January 24, 2008
Last night when I was hanging out with my friends; somehow we got on the topic about jails and their lack of punishment. I do not understand why the jails are not harsher in punishment. The inmates receive three meals a day and a shelter. It may not be the “best” food or the most comfortable bed but its still food and shelter that people without those things want. Why would a homeless person not want to commit a crime? They just go to jail and get food and a place to live. Unless homeless people actually have morals then they are going to see stealing and crime as a way out of their own misery. It becomes a free ticket to a shelter home, also known as jail. If our punishment was as harsh as other countries we would not have trouble fighting crime because people would be too scared to actually commit any crime. In England if you steal something, they chop off your hand. If our country did the same thing to criminals then crime would be cut in ½ right there. I just do not understand why we are so easy going on criminals. If they had the nerve to commit whatever crime they committed, then they need to suffer, not just sit in a cell with a roof over their head.
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I agree with you Courtney. I think that if I was homeless and it came down to know where else to go I might just commit a crime so I would not have to go hunrgy or without a shelter. I never really thought about it that way. They should have a lot harsher punishments for people who commit crimes.
I'm pretty sure they don't chop off hands anymore in England.
Glad to see you reflecting on issues, though. Perhaps there is something more to being incarcerated that might make it less appealing than homelessness. Or, maybe, put another way, homelessness is more appealing than incarceration.
Good beginning for a conversation. Keep it up.
UHHHHHHHHHHH did i read correctly? Did you say that people get their hands chopped off in England? well you know they might have been wacking peoples hands off in England 200 or 300 years ago, but England does not even spank their children any more because their teeth are bad and if they move to fast their teeth will fall out.
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