While I certainly believe in the need for prisons to be the home for real criminals, I do think there needs to be some basic thoughts to just what kind of criminal has to be put in there. Some young people get picked up for stupid things but in the criminal process, their family becomes destitute and become welfare cases because the, 'criminal', can't even call their employer to tell them why they won't be at work.

Our entire criminal system and it's basic concepts, sorely lack in many details. This bill is not the answer because the same lack of complete thought is still missing here! Maybe if an offender re-offends, their sentence should be increased 3 fold? Who am I to say but I do know that every time we throw a person in jail, we add more people to the public dole list, which in turn could grow the criminal element, which then puts more folks on the public dole, which................