Quote Originally Posted by Medicaldelivery
One of my attorneys and a prison guard at separate times told me the same thing. They said...It doesn't matter the nature of your crime, in their eyes when you commit a crime you are a criminal, and all criminals go to prison, just like trash get thrown in the trash pile.

Funny cuz, we separate our trash to recycle.:thumbsup:
And isn't the idea of prisons really about recycling? We call it rehabilitation, but its not. We talk about the noble idea of sending a criminal back onto the streets as a new person who's "learned their lesson" or "done their time". The reality is that we basically just categorize a way-too general bunch of crimes and say: "If you do any of these crimes you go to prison for varying amounts of time. Our system recognizes that there are vastly different types of crime, and even assigns a number value (read as time spent in prison) to each type.
So why cant we have a system that has more of a separation based on the nature of the prisoners crime?
My buddy is languishing in a private prison in Idaho, luckily the potato state isn't one of the more violent areas of the country, but my friend still has to rub shoulders with guys who have killed before for whatever reason. All my buddy did was try to grow a couple of plants in his basement, but if a violent situation arose my friend isn't one to just lie down and give in to anyone.
Hopefully that situation never occurs, but that seems like an inherent flaw in the system, one where-by a peaceful person can go in one side and come out the other side a violent criminal because of the environment they had to endure.
Maybe the probability that you could be raped at whatever prison should factor into how much time you should have to serve there. Just a randome thought there. :P