prison systems

[walrus]

How about financial crimes. I see a London trader was sentenced to 14 years in prison for trying to rig benchmark interest rates, it made the FrontPage of the wall street journal. I have a hard time seeing people get long sentences for financial crimes. Even Bernie Madoff. Life in jail, no parole for financial crimes. Seems intense. I just can't see taking someone's life for money. I know a lot of people disagree with me on that one.

There are no punishments for financial crimes. All you get is a fall guy like in the case of this guy. The system is rigged. Mass looting of the general public is par for the course so no need to do anything about that. Prisons are for poor people who steal things like chocolate bars.

When it comes to prison I think most of the people in prison should not be there. The system is for profit and so there is a lot of money in crowded prisons. Take away the profit motive and the budgets for the war on people (poverty, drugs, etc) and you will see emptier prisons. There is a very low prison population here and a safe society. No need for prison most of the time.

Well Miles, federal prisons in the US have a large population of inside traders, Linux schemers and the like. Can't speak much on your country. I think lack of immigration plays a part in South Korea's low crime but I'm sure corruption is rampant if you look close enough. How many people does south Korea have locked up

Actually I looked it up. South Korea locks up 104 per 100,000. With an inmate population that is 2.3 percent foreign. You have about 52 prisons running at 110% occupancy. So relatively low but no nirvana.

So, why do you have unchecked immigration? Why are people not being deported? An illegal should really be put on a plane and banned from reentering. Haha, I guess they just re-walk through the border out there!

You hit the nail on the head. How do you think south Korea would look if the border their was as porous as the US Mexico border. I'm not saying it would be as bad, I'm saying South Korea would probably be a lot different.

Korea is very harsh on illegals and a good thing too. I think it would be very bad to have open borders as it would destroy national cohesion which is very important. I like life where immigration is controlled. It means local people are not threatened by foreigners stealing jobs which they do in the West and it means the local economy is stable for local people meaning a peaceful environment. I would probably get annoyed if foreigners started serving me in restaurants and supermarkets. I think this place has it about right.

On the other hand I think a diversity brings a lot of positives to a country. We have millions of hard working immigrants in the US who get about just fine. Of course we are a nation of immigrants. It's always strange to me traveling around Asia. Everyone looks the same. We are not familiar with that in the US. Honestly I prefer diversity, white people are boring. By the way @Gandalf I don't know if I ever asked you. What is your residency status. Are you a south Korean citizen or are you still under the monarchy.