PRISON SYSTEM AND JAILS

(this is an incomplete post)

Ignorance of the law? No excuse. The law would be taught to all people at some level of education. Everyone would know how the prison system works and know what their "options" will be if they are sentenced to prison.

The prison system would be privatized. It would still be government run or monitored, but the prisons would be owned by private owners FOR PROFIT.

How would that work? Well prisons would be some sort of commercial or industrial business. The owner(s) would be in it for profit. "Prisoners" would be the employees. They would be paid a reasonable, maybe even competitive wage. Everyone in prison, just like the rest of us, would work or be on "welfare*." (* see posting on welfare for public welfare). In prison, "welfare" would mean a prisoner gets the barest minimum required to exist. A six foot by 8 foot private cell. A cot/bed. Three basic no frills meals a day. A water fountain. A toilet shower combo. Those necessities would be "provided" by the government through tax dollars. (I really don't think we'd need many of these cells). If a prisoner wants to watch TV, he needs to buy a TV. Just like the free do. If he wants cable TV he'd have to pay for it to be turned on and pay those ridiculously high monthly fees just like the free do. He wants to read a book? You guessed it - buy one. (there'd be a library, but you'd have to work to have a library card). A prisoner wants to "go out to eat" he'd need money to pay for the meal just like the free do. Of course in prison you wouldn't exactly get to go "out" to eat, but you'd be allowed to go to the food court and choose your meal. He wants to work out in the gym, he'd buy a ridiculous gym membership. Just like the free do. A movie? Money! What's an adult ticket now, sixteen bucks or something?

I think you get the idea. The prisoner would work for the owner's business or be on "welfare." He can earn and save and invest and go to school and basically live "the free life." He'd just do it in prison where he can't hurt "the free."