One of the under discussed topics floating around Washington is prison reform, which has the support of President Trump. His son-in-law has been quietly whipping support for a bill backed by the White House. Trump’s photo-op with Kim Kardashian was part of the effort to get Democrat support for the bill. The point of the reform plan is to put more money into training and counseling for inmates, in an effort to reduce recidivism and decrease the prison population. America has 2.2 million prisoners which is the highest in the world.
Prison reform in America is a loser of an issue, mostly because all previous prison reform efforts have been nothing more than opening up the jails, so blacks could run wild in the streets. Even if you are not old enough to remember the crime wave of the 1970’s, the “soft on crime, bleeding heart liberal” is a stock figure in pop culture. As a result, whites are solidly against anything with the name “prison reform” in it. That’s why you never see blacks on TV making demands for prison reform. Their handlers have no interest in it.
Republicans in the House and Senate are in no hurry to pass anything. Even the open borders fanatics, who want to fill your neighborhood with criminal aliens and MS-13 gang-bangers, are not in a hurry to pass anything. Instead, they are doing the “comprehensive reform” dance, which is how politicians manage to do nothing, while endlessly talking about the need to do something. That means the odds of something getting done in the near term is not good, even if Trump is behind the effort. It’s bad politics right now.
That does not mean the status quo is workable. We have roughly 2.2 million people in jail at anyone moment. There are roughly 4.7 million people on parole, house arrest and court supervision. In a country of 300 million, that’s not a huge number, but seven million people is more than the population of Paraguay. It’s close to twice the population of Ireland. There are 125 countries with less than seven million residents. One reason we have so many people in jail is it is a lot easier to manage criminals in jail than when they are on parole.
Of course, the prison population is about 40% black. That means about about 2.5% of black people are in jail at any one time. Another 5% are under court supervision of some sort. As has been pointed out for decades, eliminate black crime and America is suddenly as docile as any other Western nation. That brings us back to the politics of prison reform, as everyone knows the stats on black crime. Since addressing the realities of the black population in America is forbidden, we maintain a massive human warehousing system.
The looming problem is demographics. In the 1990’s, getting tough on crime mostly meant longer sentences for smaller crimes. The “broken windows” approach to policing is mostly mythology, but getting crime under control does have a real impact. It works the same way the death penalty worked to pacify Europe. By handing out long jail sentences, cities like New York culled the herd, so to speak. Eventually though, the people sent away for 20 years get out on parole or served their time. What happens to them at that point?
A useful example, although not representative, is Joseph Konopka, who went by the name Dr. Chaos in his criminal career. He recruited a groups of young people he called The Realm of Ch@os, who committed acts of terrorism and vandalism in Wisconsin and Illinois. Konopka was arrested plotting a mass cyanide attack on the Chicago transit system. He is serving a 20-year sentence at ADX Florence. He will be released, having served all of his sentence, in August of next year. How is that going to work out?
For those unfamiliar, ADX Florence is a prison for the worst the system has to offer. It is called a “supermax” prison, but the inmates call it the Alcatraz of the Rockies. It holds people like Larry Hoover of the Gangster Disciples, Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham of the Aryan Brotherhood. They also have Zacarias Moussaoui, Faisal Shahzad, Ramzi Yousef, Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph. In other words, when Konopka comes out, he will have spent 20 years living with some of the most dangerous and depraved men on earth.
This is an extreme example, but illustrative of the problem facing modern America. The solution to crime was to lock people up, which made sense at the time, but no one thought much about what those prisons would produce in 20-30 years. Granted, many men coming out of the system are going to be old, but they will still be useless, as the prison did nothing to ready them for life after jail. There’s zero chance the social justice warriors running FaceBook or Starbucks will be hiring Joseph Konopka upon his release.
The right answer, of course, is to start accepting reality about the last 70 years of social reform that started after WW2. Crime spiraled upward when the constraints on non-whites were removed and diversity was imposed on whites. Steve Sailer famously used Katrina and the subsequent collapse of New Orleans to illustrate this biological reality. Black crime would be half of what it is today, most of which is against other blacks, if whites were willing to reimpose the sorts of cultural restraints common before Civil Rights.
That said, the diversity horse has left the barn. By turning America into a majority-minority nation, the ruling class of the last half century has condemned future generations to endemic crime problems like you see in Brazil. One solution to this is the return of penal colonies and criminal reservations. The people serving life terms should be housed on remote islands where they can live out their lives, without causing harm to other prisoners and prison guards. It is the alternative to the enthusiastic use of the death penalty.
Penal colonies would also mean a shift in sentencing. A guy like Joseph Konopka would not get 20 years. Instead, he would get life in the colony. In fact, a fair chunk of the 2.2 million currently in jail would get sent to the penal colonies. There’s simply no point in pretending that a man can come out after 30 years in a gladiator academy and be a normal person in society. There’s no point in pretending the rest of us wish to invest in the effort, even assuming it is possible. Penal colonies humanely address this problem.
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Trump’s idea of prison reform might be actually adding to the inmate population….Hillary, Comey, Mueller, the 9th Circus…
Heck, he may even be thinking about bringing back ol’ Sparky!
“There’s zero chance the social justice warriors running FaceBook or Starbucks will be hiring Joseph Konopka”
You sure about that?
Maybe his politics were secondary to his activities;
maybe he just liked vandalism and destruction.
He could be the perfect Useful Idiot.
p.s. just read his wikipedia … very interesting career he had.
Penal colonies certainly are a way to address the crime problem. Although I used to be an anti-death-penalty absolutist, I’ve come to the view that for heinous crimes, it is the best approach. Perhaps even only moderately heinous crimes. The only reservation is that overwhelming evidence of guilt must demonstrated.
I agree. I am also reminded of how integral public hangings were for the community. Let people see the penalty and let them know you are willing to enforce it. Now, some States have outlawed capital punishment and others haven’t outlawed it, but have made it a joke by allowing appeal after appeal. Warehousing people at taxpayer expense who have abrogated their right to life is just another financial scam that only benefits the deep state and independent contractors providing “privatized” rehabilitation.
The only prison reform I’m interested in is less prisons and more executions.
Not gonna happen given the current zeitgeist.
Offer young felons reduced sentences and enhanced educational opportunities if they agree to sterilisation.
Throw in a 5K $ cash payout, you know, to help get them on their feet. Bargain of the century!
If only there were another Australia we could populate….
Let Musk shoot them into space.
Well Alaska has a bunch of open ground. Logging colonies. Maybe even self sustaining.
I was thinking of walling in Manhatten island, destroy the bridges and let them all fight it out there with Isaac Hayes as overlord.
Another outreach by Trump and the establishment blacks still hate him. There needs to be a final solution of some kind for this.
That would make a good movie.
“Another outreach by Trump and the establishment blacks still hate him.”
My normie conservative brother keeps announcing that black unemployment is at an all-time low. He believes that blacks will notice this and support Trump. I smile dismissively and say, “They don’t care about that. Many of them don’t want to work and want handouts. And for those that do want to work, their tribalism won’t allow them to give credit to a white man.”
I hope experiences like this will awaken him from his MLK slumber.
A better solution would be to put a wall around the British Isles and dump our convicts there. They are lost anyway.
Penal battalions. Let the Neocons use them in Afghanistan, Syria, etc. Cant make those places worse.
Is there any reason Afghanistan couldn’t be the penal colony? National sovereignty for conquered nations is overrated.
I could believe American convicts would build a better society there than the natives.
Prison is simply a way to brutalize Black People
This is done to give whites unfair advantages and unearned privileges
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And Tiny returns. Really, the little fag Adam splaining?
Oh boy, more bullshit from the alt-white high priest. The Criminal Jesters system in the U.S. is broken. It is broken when a black kid stealing a pair of sneakers gets 10 years in prison but a blond blue-eyed white (collar) criminal like Elizabeth Holmes and James Comey still are out there selling books and giving lectures. Let us not forget the drug warriors who have exponentially increased the prison population and people, both white and black still get high on opioids. But of course, as I mentioned already inability to blame oneself and assign “foreign/minority” bogeyman is the haillmark… Read more »
Do you dispute that wherever in the world we find blacks they commit the most crime per capita?
The death penalty should be humane, goreless, and applied often. I imagine altitude chamber such as those used by the Air Force to train pilots about hypoxia. Hypoxia death does not mutilate the body and is relatively painless. Hypoxia is known to produce mild euphoria before the person passes out. This form of death would be acceptable to most people. The prisoner would not have to be bound in the chamber and could even be provided with a comfortable couch. When this type of execution is made standard I think more people would be OK with the death penalty being… Read more »
Maybe, you do bring up a good point. Any criminal that gets a 25 year or longer sentence should be given the option of either a looooong incarceration or death. Not a small number I think would opt for the DP.
Of course, the sentencing system should be cleaned up so that only real bad crimes (vehicular manslaughter, murder, aggravated rape, human smuggling, treason/sedition etc.) get these long sentences and not some kid stealing a pair of sneakers.
This has been going on for a long time. The ratios haven’t changed since the 1820s. “Yet it was a fact universally acknowledged, even among the friends of the race, that the escaped slaves who moved into the southern tier of Pennsylvania counties were notoriously criminal. One report statewide showed the black population ratio at 1:33 and the black crime rate at 1:3. Furthermore, of black criminals, some 66.3 percent had come from slave states. Apologists cited the want of education and work opportunities, as well as the temptations of liquor, all of which certainly contributed to these deplorable statistics.”… Read more »
I like the idea of negotiating a Hong Kong-style 99 year lease agreement to acquire an enclave with some sub-Saharan African country. Use those still serving their sentences for aid work, those with completed terms can go to work for corporations allowed to set up shop there on favorable terms. It would probably turn out to be Chinese corporations, but they might have the unique skillset to manage such a challenging body of labor.
The prison population is a trailing indicator of crime rates. As crime went up from 1960-1990, tougher crime policies were enacted and incarceration increased. As crime has decreased since 1990, the amount of people in prison has began a slow decline. There is a wish to accelerate this decline by removing the mandatory sentencing. Legal cannabis will also result in fewer sentences, as drug dealers are outcompeted by the legal alternative. The county jails have seen increases in inmates due to petty crimes committed by heroin addicts.
Nice idea but politically, socially, and culturally unacceptable. The great mass of White people, or should I say White women, will find those measures simply intolerable. Heartiste has a post up “Depravity thy Name is Woman” https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/depravity-thy-name-is-woman/ that I think ties into this. The loosening of norms of White society upon the Black underclass did not happen by magic or evil conspiracies any more than the Protestant Reformation was run by Egyptian magii. Profound changes in how people live, think, and act forged by technological advantage (then: gunpowder, printing press, the discovery of the New World, rise of merchants, rise… Read more »
It becomes more and more obvious that Jim Crow was the most rational and humane way to insulate the rest of us from intractable black dysfunction. Getting rid of it in the name of dreamy-eyed utopianism has proven to be a disaster for all involved.
Also, what is the point of putting human beings into a literal hell on earth like Florence or Pelican Bay? In the name of being humane, no less! Just get a rope, snap their necks, and be done with it.