The criminal constituency

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The criminal justice system has tilted too far towards punishment and away from rehabilitation.  Our probation systems are a joke for the most part and should be strengthened if we want to reduce recidivism.  Locking people up for a period of time and then throwing them back on the street without a useful probation system to guide them back into society is a prescription for more crime.  Lengthening jail time only treats the symptoms without treating the underlying problem.

We need to revamp our drug, gambling, and prostitution laws because as they exist now, they do far more to increase crime than they do to solve the very real social problems that their proponents claim for them.  Take away the funding for criminal organizations that drugs, gambling, and prostitution provide and we'd have much less violent gang crime.