Diggers wrote:
>>>Uh..what, like Russia doesn’t have street crime?
HA! They have plenty.
Besides, I've watched the shows on TV about our prisons and word "Vacation" is NOT one I would use to describe going there.<<<
I wouldn't use "vacation" to describe it either, but terms like "televisions", "exercise rooms", "play/recreation areas", "free education", "video gaming", "stereos", etc, don't get used in describing Russian prisons. No, Russian prisoners languish in 8x8 cells, one to each, eat minimum staple for "nutrition", and have a VERY low re-offense rate compared to ours. High-risk prisoners are celled 23 or more hours per day. Lower-risk prisoners, if they're lucky, might be allowed to spend 14 hours a day busting big rocks into little ones.
The comment was about their prison system, not about whether or not they have crime. Every nation does. It was also about the high incarceration rate in the US. It is my firm belief that such a prison sentence would not only be more effective a deterrent to crime or re-offense, but that it would not even need be as long. Those two principles are what keep the incarceration rates in other, less-PC nations lower than ours. I think most would be happier doing a year in one of ours than six (maybe three) months in one of theirs.
(Disclaimer: I'm in no way advocating harsher terms for inmates not yet convicted of any crime.)