Thread: Tried as an adult

... our prisons are so comfy/cozy, why would some of these people want to break out? Prison life for them is better than what awaits them outside the walls.

I'm not saying it's better than my life... but there are those in poverty who would have a better life in prison; So why break out?

This subject, I feel is extremely important. How should we treat our criminals?! What I would like to see, is not a death penalty, but a reversable removal from society. I would enamour the day when civilised society took it's worst prisoners and made them suffer the consequenses, and I mean CONSEQUENCES of their actions.

This is my '2 cents'. Lets, have prisons that take those disgusting lifeforms which run our streets, deprive our people of the freedom they deserve and lets put them in a cell indefinitely. And I mean indefinitely!! Callous butchers who have no regard for the sanctity of human life, themselves have no right to enjoy the fruits of our freedom. These people must be removed in order to protect every man, woman and child who strives to lead a decent, caring and considerate excistence. I, in my country, would welcome the introduction of 'ultimate inprisonment' where those convicted, by a fair trial, of murder, would be imprisoned 24 hours a day for the rest of their entire life. They simply do not deserve, and should not be awarded the wonderful life that we, in the civilised west are afforded.

Now lets move to minors. Minors are influenced by us. If we allow Eminem to spew foul language, obsenities and stories of rape and murder then what can we expect of our future population? Young people subconciously absorb everything that goes on around them and respond accordingly, that is why we owe them a decent example.

I just got back from a club. Inside was played Eminem. It may seem like I focus on him too much but lets be frank, he influences poeple in a way that simply, is wrong. It is time to stop this education of fear and harm, such as eminem preaches and begin real education. Not education about money and power, but education about respect and consideration for other people.

Don't get me wrong, I feel extremly angry when I hear that the Bulger killers are to be released at 18 years old as if nothing ever happened, but I believe that prevention is far better than cure.

Executing someone for murder is justifiable in a society such as ours but would it not be better to prevent it from happening in the first place? Let's learn from our mistakes, those mistakes created by pure greed and selfishness. Why is the playstation more important in our society than love for one's siblings, or the consideration for our neighbours?

Numnerous cases of teenage violence have been argued in the above thread but ultimately children are influenced by everyone. That means the parents, the film stars, the WWF wrestlers......everyone!! And until society sets a superb example to it's offspring then we really are in no position to complain about their behaviour!!

people forget how stupid and impressionable the average teenager actually is.

I have some close friends and we are really reasonable people with realistic goals and a no BS approach to life.

There are many stupid teenagers that were brought up wrong that just plague society from the day that they enter school up to the day they get tossed in jail for doing something wrong and getting caught.

Wow, I just read my last post. I was battered last night when I wrote that!! About 8 pints worth......boy am I hungover this morning though!!!!

actually some people do start riots when they are about to be realeased so they will have more time in their, when people have spent years in prision it is the only way they no how to live, if they are freed then will likly just go on commiting crimes untill they are caught angain and they don't even care. The fact is, improsionment makes people more likly to commit another crime so really the only good it does is keep them out of socities hair for a short time. About the death penalty, it really is imposible to determine who "deserves it" and who doesn't, although it is not a big deal, to give someone 6 weeks in prison when they deserved 5, giving someone death when the deserved it is horibly wrong and irreversible. There have been a number of people who are inosent who were put to death and because of that the death penalty should be outlawed. About being children being tried as adults, I think their age should be taken into consideration just like anything else, your brain does not fully develope untill 25 and until then there still is chance for rehab. Remember that the US is one of the few countries that refused to outlaw the child death penalty. Personally I belive that the reason that many people belive in such harsh criminal "justice" is that they don't care if inosents are killed because they belive it will lower the odds of them being killed which is all that matters to them. They figure they are over 18 anyway so the law doesn't benifit them so why keep it. Not that I am saying all of you are like that but I think many may be.

I can't argue with this. I think all options should be open for those 14 and 15 year olds especially.

Just look at our school system. We shut doors on a
huge segment of our population.