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Re: Prison Technology

Postby KissMyTail » Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:05 am

Instead of an ankle monitor, why not just implant chips under the skin of juvenile delinquents? Better yet, preventative measures might include implanting chips in any child who scores high on a battery of behavior issues indicators. Primarily low IQ would be one of the most useful indicators on the list. I watched a "Scared Straight" video on YouTube and the thing that impressed me the most is the concentration of low IQ types which occurs in prison situations. Not only were the kids in the program dumber than crap, but the inmates were even dumber. There's no way of denying that low IQ is the common denominator with somewhere around 98% of inmates incarcerated for violent or property crimes having very low IQs.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby pdm » Fri Aug 30, 2019 6:22 am

KissMyTail: I'm all for developing highly automated prisons which require very few human guards and using these prisons to warehouse large numbers of people as necessary. Probably ten percent of the population should be incarcerated at any given time. There are seriously that many dysfunctional people running around doing stupid things. Most of them are not realistically redeemable due to extremely low IQs.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby wildrose » Sun Sep 01, 2019 6:36 am

Why can't prisons staff their facilities?
Prisons should be designed so that both prisoners and staff are safer. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to rethink design. The idea of "programming" discussed in this report might have some merit depending on how broadly that topic is defined.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby wildrose » Mon Sep 02, 2019 6:46 am

I just posted the following to the Violent Crime thread:
What I recommend is an incarceration system which forces inmates to earn their way out of prison through completion of academic work. Those who take longer to complete the work remain in prison longer. Simple way to keep inmates busy and those who can complete the work are likely to become productively employed upon release.

The end result would be that two guys sentenced to two years in prison each would spend drastically different amounts of time behind bars. Someone with an IQ fifteen points below average might take four years to complete the work while someone with an IQ fifteen points above average might be out in a few months. Inmates would have a huge catalog of courses to choose from in all sorts of subject areas. Some courses would be easy and earn the inmate very few points and other courses would be more difficult and would be worth a greater number of points. All would require a minimum of instructor time since the system would be almost completely automated. That way the cost would be low. On top of that inmates would live in single rooms so there would be no way to cheat. Someone who sloughed off all the way through high school would have a lot of catching up to do, but when they got out they'd be caught up and much more employable.

The most important thing about this system is that there would be no handicap (as in golf) given to compensate for different ability levels. All would be required to achieve the same regardless of natural ability. That's the key to a successful system in prison or out of prison. The other thing that would be incredibly important is that the courses would all need to be of high academic value. No courses pushing ideologies or values. It would all be very fact-based without any preaching about how people should behave. It would be just straight science, math, literature, technology, etc.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby CrustyOldFart » Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:21 am

wildrose: Sounds like you believe in a merit-based society. You must be racist!!! :pac:
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby mrfish » Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:14 am

CrustyOldFart: Although corporate news tries to convince people that treating people based on merit is racist, the opposite is actually the truth. When people are given preferential admission to college based on the color of their skin, that is very racist. When unqualified people are given jobs because of the color of their skin, that is also very racist. People should be admitted to college and hired for jobs based on their qualifications and it's very strange that insisting that that be the case is considered to somehow be racist, when in reality it is the opposite of racist!
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby KissMyTail » Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:52 am

mrfish: So, what you're saying in other words is that in our crazy world, not being racist is racist.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby dzrtdwg » Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:53 am

The USA should definitely incarcerate a greater portion of the population, but we should come up with a really low cost way of doing it. So many low IQ types are completely useless and low IQ types commit more crimes than any other group. So, just come up with a super prison that is fully automated and which is extremely efficient. Sort of like the Amazon.com model, but for prisons.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby mrfish » Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:28 am

dzrtdwg: It makes sense that there would be a super efficient way of organizing incarceration systems. It also seems clear that we allow way too many criminals to get away without really paying for their crimes. People with low IQs are best isolated and they should not be allowed to bred. Incarceration seems like the best solution to me.
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Re: Prison Technology

Postby ergot » Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:11 pm

Popular books are banned in U.S. prisons
Educational activities are an important part of the prison system. Intellectually developed people tend not to commit physically violent crimes. Why hold back the intellectual development of prisoners? Sure most of them aren't super smart, but there are some that have potential.
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