Don't need more jails. Need to reform the system that allows plea deals to riduculous sentencing and idle threats and chance after chance. One of the biggest things that shocked me when I got hired is the "Zero" accountability for habitual offenders. If people knew each time they stayed in jail would be a long and miserable sentence, they simply would not behave in a way that would case incarceration. How many times have you arrested someone and they asked you "why do you think I'll get out?" That
Don't need more jails. Need to reform the system that allows plea deals to riduculous sentencing and idle threats and chance after chance. One of the biggest things that shocked me when I got hired is the "Zero" accountability for habitual offenders. If people knew each time they stayed in jail would be a long and miserable sentence, they simply would not behave in a way that would case incarceration. How many times have you arrested someone and they asked you "why do you think I'll get out?" That