What's the point of jail?

Jail is a punishment though... what else is society supposed to do with criminals??

It’s the only way to put adults in time out.

Okay. Sadly, In this country, money makes the world go round. There are some fairly deviated people who will do ANYTHING and convince people of anything just to help people make money. Helping people make money seems to be more important that doing what is healthy and right for the community. It’s a conundrum. For instance, The insurance industry provides grants for ticketing speeding cars. Yes, it important, but sometimes officers have to meet a minimum ticket quota for speeding. So they play hide an catch. It’s too bad people are not punished for real crimes. How do I know this? Because businesses include the average cost of losing money to thieves (and that’s ONE reason why we pay higher prices for products.) So yep. Not only do we pay taxes we also pay for theft. Basically the customer pays for it so the grocery stores don’t make a big fuss about theft. Weird and sad. Jail. Never been. I agree is hardly school reform.

USA itself operates on modern slavery, a person’s basic human right health insurance is tied to a job so the jail system isn’t surprising either

Jail is only a holding place before you have a trial, nothing more, nothing less.

Prisons is a place you remove people from society to protect the public from individuals who cannot function in society without stealing, killing or being generally violent..

Most members of the public who can function in society without breaking laws and threatening the property and lives of others are willing to pay taxes to fund the detention of people who make their lives suck by their law breaking behavior..

Of course Most people do not like High Cost penal systems which most of the western world penal systems have become.. Many would like to see a self sufficient penal system and see taxes diverted elsewhere..

So criminals should be free to continue committing crimes?

Have you ever heard the term "prison industry"?

Jail revenates a LOT of money

The United States is too soft on drunk drivers. I forget which nation it is but one of them amputates their thumbs.

Small and simple is different than big and not simple.

Time is all we have man and it’s very limited.

The point is to restrain them from doing more crimes

Unfortunately petty criminals get busted for dumb stuff while major criminals roam at large in everyones face.. Its maddening

I agree, the world is overpopulated, and we should have a year-long purge; where all crimes, no matter how small, are served with an immediate death penalty! We just need to acquire enough robot police to carry this out.

It’s an industry. The point is to get people in, keep them there, and use them as slave labor.

I think rehabilitation should be the goal. For most criminals, something like psychology and doing community service would be fine. It's only a small fraction of criminals that can't be rehabilitated and should be severed from society or exiled.

What is your suggestion on how to handle criminal behavior? Beat them to a bloody stump?

It's not right, but the human race has not got the understanding to do much else sadly.

i will say the punishment can be unfair..however we need it in society because then everybody would do what they want without fear of being locked up

All jails get paid by governement for each day they in there

Can we bring back medieval punishments instead? Like putting people in the stocks and throwing tomatoes at them?