With pressing issues such as overcrowding, overuse of solitary confinement, and the long-term incarceration of nonviolent offenders, many critics of the nation’s prison system are calling for sweeping reforms. Here are some of the proposals to improve the prison system:
- Create thousands of productive jobs for inmates constructing more prisons
- Use solitary confinement only in cases of severe guard anger
- Slightly shorter prison sentences for those who were wrongfully convicted
- Take preventative measures by working with kids to convince them not to grow up in areas with disproportionately high incarceration levels
- Some more dogs to read to or train or whatever
- Ease the emotional strain caused by inmates’ separation from their families by imprisoning their loved ones with them
- Increase length of a life sentence to 150 years to really deter potential criminals
- Avoid whole prison reform headache by solving nation’s education, mental health, drug problems instead