To Incarcerate or Not To Incarcerate

As we were talking last eve about how the practices that suppress lives are rampant in politics today, things like drone killing becoming a billion dollar industry, NSA wire tapping, indefinite detention, and all that type of stuff; one person said the people doing this should be in prison to which I replied yes.

Then Joel came up to say that he would not wish prison on anyone due to the things that are forced on you.

This made me feel guilty in a sense as I am, in my personal life, strictly concerned with developing an honest perspective towards all things and all people.

Today the United States has more people incarcerated than any other international country according to public records online. America’s correctional system is big business, having a larger amount of criminal corrections facilities than any other country world wide.

We have read about prison over crowding and the early release of small crime offenders in order to make room for more imprisonment – Perhaps this is the reason for all of the detention camps scattered through out the US.

Joel. I believe that people that do harmful things to others are already imprisoned in their minds. We should attempt to separate ourselves from this toxic mind imprisonment in every way possible in order to keep ourselves free from destructive practices and influences.

Incarceration – if it need be – should be about rehabilitating an inmate and helping that individual to become productive and valuable to him and society. Our world seems so far away from a clear understanding of right and wrong; any attempt to be law giver when coming from a mind set of power grab and force should never be attempted.

So I apologize to you Joel, if I say someone should be incarcerated in today’s corrupted correctional system, (one that now adheres to indefinite detention without fair trial according to law)-I am wrong.

I take no part in acknowledging the current criminal justice practice of our country today.

Elaine