Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
Coming from Denmark where life is max 16 years and where people rarely go to jail just because society does not know what else to do with you and then moving to the US, the justice system when it comes to petty crimes, always seemed very draconian and counter productive.<p>For most people — just the mere notion of being in conflict with the law — is enough to send chills down their back. How sad that something that could have been used to actually function as a mild punishment ends up completely destroying a life and the potential of being part of society.<p>In a hundred years from now people are going to look back at things like the war on drugs as one of the most barbaric, absurd and useless pieces of legislation ever to have been implemented. A war which ended up destroying more lifes than it saved.<p>I for one applaud Obama for finally taking a stanse against this unnecessarily strict legislation and hoping that normal otherwise law abiding citizens wont get their lifes completely destroyed for things anyone could have done. I love the US but the legislation I could certainly do without.