Think about it... (Score 1)

Clearly the opinions are divided. However, I like the idea from the standpoint of reducing the taxes requires to house criminals by dilating time to serve a sentence. For example in the episode "Hard Time" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Miles O'Brien serves a 20 year sentence for a crime by placing the incarceration period in his head. Only a few hours had elapsed. No housing, food, or medical expenses required! In that case he was falsely accused of a crime he did not commit so therein lies the need for a safety check. Are we imprisoning the guilty? And why do we imprison people? Well for one thing to remove the dangerous ones from society. That is valid. We really need to stop punitive punishment though such as putting grandma in jail for pot possession. The penal system NEEDS an overhaul. We need better and swifter justice for the accused and the victims using more logic and common sense and stop cowtowing to "political correctness" and the ACLU!! As far as heinous crimes like rape and violent murder, do we really believe we can "rehabilitate" that person? If not, should we pay to incarcerate them to keep them away from civilization or expedite their removal from this planet? I doubt they sit in jail thinking how they "regret" what they did. I'm not for needless execution, but in some cases it is the right thing to do.