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Our Prison System Sucks     Good afternoon ****** and fellow class mates. To many of you, the wordprison might frighten you. To some, you grateful the idea of prison. To others,well, you just dont care. Well I am for the idea of prison, but I dontsupport the way our prisons in north america are organism run. These stackdeserved to be punished I dont want them to waste our money, get "paid" fortelevision interviews, book rights and all the other goodies that come fromdoing a crime. And then slapped on the hand saying "You be a good boy/girlnow" and sent them off to a place we key out prison, but in reality, some of theprisoners, find prison to be just standardized a strict camp. I have personally talkedto some people who had gotten out of prison a few weeks prior to our talk, andthey where telling me how they learned how to make certain crafts, learn how tosow, and many other things. To me, that thinking(a)s awfully like a camp I was made togo to when I was young. Some people in prison even have television, otherstreat it like a hotel. This disgusts me This doesnt sound at all like aprison. A prison is a place where people are supposed to be punished. Nottreated like guests. There is a fin line between being punished and being overpunished however. Im not saying that each person should be beaten daily, ormade to stay in a cell by themselves with no one to talk to for an eternity.The person should be punished harmonize to the crime. "An eye for an eye."This brings me to the subject of capital punishment. Im sure some of you aredisgusted by the word, but I am not. I am disgusted with the circumstance that it isnot here in Canada. I believe that for major crimes, such as that of PaulBernardo certainly deserve the death penalty. If someone can go out and killdozens of children, or adults. They surely have the guts to go though with theend of their lives. The amount of grief a family has to suffer when a loved oneis l ost is tremendous, and to have to go through life worrying weather or notyou safe because your afraid the killer pull up stakes get out of jail with good behavior.