at this reading the score reads
19 people with a brain in their head
and 5 moonbats that should move to Vermont

awwww don't hate on Vermont.

So they commit a crime. We spend who knows how much on a trial, keeping them locked up, providing them training/college education and they want to get out early. To hell with that, I'm with ya Donna.

I think anyone that earns a college education behind bars should pay the state back for the cost of that education just as if they were given a student loan. I could've saved myself a bundle if my kids decided to rob a 7-eleven instead of handing me the bill.

Depending on y they r in to begin with but probably NOT!

everyone deserves another chance.it is easy to say especially when u dont have a love one locked up.some people change.so if u dont have a love one locked up i dont expect for u to understand.what if jesus didnt give us a chance.where is our heart just because inmates are locked up it dont make them a bad person they just did something wrong.so stop judging or the lord will judge u.how u like that.

A non-religious-based argument would be if you are just creating a holding tank without regard to the crime committed, what's the point? You invest all of this money in locking them up, what are they going to do afterwards? Society foots the bill both in the cost of the crime all the way through prison even when we are not talking about classes. Offering a way for prisoners to better themselves does the following:

1) give them a chance at a better life without crime afterwards
2) teaches inmates the tools to think critically and beyond themselves
3) teaches inmates the value of community
4) Prisons often have their own criminal enterprises going on within the prison. You need to give prisoners something to do besides attend Criminal University.

Otherwise, all you are doing is putting a life of crime on pause until their sentence is up, and then we repeat the same process at a further cost. I would say there is a lot of value in offering educational opportunities.

Drugs seem to be the driving force behind most crimes. When on drugs you do not think of the harm you are causing yourself or your family let alone the victims of the crime. I believe good kids can learn from there mistakes, that being said, we can not allow them to mistake after mistake and letting them off easy. I believe in punishment but lets check backrounds and evaluate wether the person is likely to commit a crime again or not. Let some of these people with college degrees use them. Rehab is to short of a period of time and it is also expensive, lets make rehab a manditory sentence that a Judge can hand down,right now there is no such law.

i agree with four the people a 100%