NationStates Jolt Archive

I can't remeber saying in issue #43 that I banned prisons, but I must have. Now the question is how can I reverse that situation?

I searched through the issue list in this forum and I can't find any that resulted in prisons coming back? Is this a long overdue issue or am I just not seeing the solution?

Anyway, here is an issue that I put together....

Name: The Walking Condemned
Validity: Prisons have been banned
Description:

After the last prison had been turned into "Green Mile Shopping Mall" Many ex-inmates have been seen hanging around in the mall. Many people are getting nervous and a petition has come to your attention demanding that "something be done about these degenerates"


[option]"I don't know why we banned Prisons in the first place." stated concerned parent @@RANDOMNAME@@ "We need to re-open and build new prisons. Surely it is easy and cheaper too for the government to handle all these people from inside prisons then have them living next to schools! Re-open the one kept as a tourist attraction or build new ones, i don't care just take them away from my children."
[effect]New high-tech prisons are popping up all over the place

[option]"Perhaps prisons are going too far," says Prisoner Advocate @@RANDOMNAME@@. "What they really need is a good dose of home-taught morality. Require all parents to take their children through a government sanctioned morality and right-behaving course when they're 5 and you'll have no more people that need to be incarcerated. Of course the current generation will need to die out but natural attrition will take care of that.
[effect]Children are taught that everyone is equal but some are moreso

[option]@@RANDOMNAME@@ A small business man weeps, "Those lousy cons have cost me everything. They should all be shot, you heard me. Shot. That way you don't have to worry about prisons or those thug convicts stealing your prised Pergonia. They just have no concept of beauty, which should be a crime in itself."
[effect]Police frequently shoot shoplifters as it saves alot of time and hassle

You can bring back prisons by upping your police force enough(borcoding citizens is sure to do it), although the idea of an issue specifically about bringing them back is kind of borderline since there are at least a couple somewhat related ones(More police needed and Think tank proposes privatized prisons). Give it a gimmick. Say that because crime rates have skyrocketed the military is proposing martial law, civilian tribunals, and civilian court martials.

Then, if you want, bring in options that involve non-martial law prisons, and work in the options you currently have(preferrably rewriting them to better suit the rewritten issue). This will still be somewhat iffy, but it should dramatically increase your chances of having it accepted.

Well, the thing is 27% of my budget is law & Order.... and yet I have no prisons. I suppose my Police force can act as an army force if needed.

Lack of prisons is very hard to undue, unlike the high police mortality. But that is possible. Drahks and Skuzzsock have unheard of income tax, yet tremendous defense departments, so yeah, things like that can happen.