Detroit police say man tried to sexually assault mother while she walked with baby

[JBMcB]

A few reforms of the penal system are in order.

The first step should be prisoner exchange throughout the country. Anything more than a petty offense, you should be shuttled off to another state where you can't hang out with your compatriots. Special care should be taken to make sure more than one gang member is in the same unit. Also, if it appears that a 'gang' is forming, those prisoners should immediately be rotated out of the population to other prisons.

Second step - an honest attempt at reforming low level and first-time criminals. Get them training and out-placement services so they don't repeat.

Third step - a choice for hardened career criminals, or complete sociopaths like the nutjob in this thread. You can spend the rest of your life in a supermax-type facility with no chance of leaving [[or bothering anyone else) or try reform in a labor camp. Intense, hard work is the only thing that has a chance of shoe-horning character into perpetual lowlifes like this guy.

This could probably all be paid for by simply not bothering to lock up nonviolent drug offenders. Lets end that stupidity and focus on the real lowlifes first.

[Zacha341]

The rotation option is especially compelling. As it stands now some offenders are forming networks and caches of 'friends and family' within the system. That may lessen the deterrent effect of imprisonment. Rotate and hard labor for the violent offenders!

The first step should be prisoner exchange throughout the country. Anything more than a petty offense, you should be shuttled off to another state where you can't hang out with your compatriots.