Derek Might Need Some Support

Psych wards are the bane of the lower class and in my experience cause more harm than good. I remember being left destitute after my trips to psych wards many years ago. Each trip cost me nearly $10,000 WITH insurance. It's crazy. As far as I'm concerned it's as bad a place as prison. For all the trauma it causes at least prison is free (thankfully I've never been to prison though).

I hope never to go there.

I say this to myself everyday. Keeps me out of trouble.

So true. Our prisons are notoriously bad. I think the problem lies with how we house inmates: instead of keeping them isolated in "time out", we force them to eat, shower and exorcise together. There have been so many instances of normal (sometimes innocent or wrongly convicted) people going into prison and then coming out traumatized. The whole system ought to be changed. I also think the death penalty should be abolished.

I suspect the reason why our prisons work this way is the result of how little government funding the US historically has had (it's especially bad right now), and it's cheaper to just service prisoners all at once at one location than to provide service to them individually at their cells. Also, to elaborate on my opinion about the death penalty: the reason I think it should be demolished is because of wrongful executions which are always a possibility and have happened many times throughout history all over the world. Russia and Great Britain were wise to abolish the death penalty to prevent such situations and I think the US should do the same (although a few states already have).

The death penalty is inherently immoral in it self even though if it still was only used correctly. By executing someone, one is saying that taking revenge is okay. Society should use prisons to protect civilians and rehabilitate offenders, not to take revenge.