When are we going to get justice reform? When is enough enough when it comes to crime enforcement and penalties which actually deter this rampant free for all happenning?
How can our governments not recognise that changes are long overdue?
Our penalties do not serve as deterance to these crimes and this is painfully obvious.
We don't have a system which provides restitution to its victims.
We don't want to put people in prison because it costs too much--so we have lax laws which seldom send people to jail.
Steal something and sell it to pay a drug habit and every once in a while you might get caught and let go.
Why even bother with hiring police to do a demoralising job which amounts to "catch and release". Stolen property is a major buy and sell business of which little attention is paid. For all those who think it is ok to buy stolen property at bargain prices you need to be fined and sent to jail also. If there was no market for all this stuff then the theives would have little reason to steal it in the first place.
Take a look at Arizona justice at work;
http://www.msco.org/

Woodchipper
If the GOV locked up every crook they caught, all the lawyers in the country would be out of work.
Imagine the incomes some of these lawyers earn defending the same crooks over and over and over again.
Many of our politicians are indeed lawyers, who while they are practicing law reap great benifits from our revolving door justice system.
When these lawyers run for public office and win that office, they become the people that make the laws or can change the laws anyway they see fit. Anyway they can think of to benefit themselves and the rest of the old boys clubs in this country. The UNBC Quitters Bonus is a good example
When these politicians/lawyers leave public office and return to a life of defending the same crooks over and over and over again, why would they want reform in our justice system.
That would be taking cold hard cash,(much of it taxpayer cash)right out of their overstuffed pockets.

This is of course only my opinion.

Through all this cynical commentary, how do we get change to occur?
How does our society change the way its doing things or not doing things properly?

The site which I noted on my first post clearly shows the other end of the spectrum of what it means to be put in prison. It demonstrates that when people have to pay the piper that their attention to this is very real. For both the taxpayors and the criminals this is a real life equation of who why and what is paid for by each.
It is obviously not acceptable to the Arizona taxpayors to pay the costs of hotel like prisons which we have.
While criminal minded people aren't the brightest of people, they would seriously consider the hardship and embarrasment of this type of punishment-BEFORE they did their crimes. That's the deterant which we need. That is the minimum costs which the taxpayor should be burdened with.

Agreed

Arizona sheriff and his jail? I read all about it. All our sheriffs do is deliver warrants and prisoners. How cool is that? Everyone hates Americans so why should we want to emulate them as far as their justice system goes? This thief has to be caught quite a few more times before anything of any recognition is done. Whaddya wanna do? Give him a fair trial before ya hang 'ím? Would work for me. But instead we could recommend counseling and hopefully the young fella would see the error of his ways and then repent.

Did you spell "repent" correctly? I thought it was spelt "repeat".

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maybe we could send the repeat offenders to Arizona and pay the sheriff there to look after the poor counseled fellow

Why not just out source our bad guys to Mexico? NAFTA? We "trade" prisoners for money. We give you money AND our prisoners. Win win fer the Mexicans. They get a healthy dollar and get to create jobs taking care of our bad hombres. And as a plus, the bad guys from Canada can learn a second language and all about that culture down there. I'm for it.