So, Which Cell Would You Like to Call Home?

30 days in prison doesn't seem that long until you're actually the one serving it. Sal had showed us a movie today where a man had spent 30 days in jail, and was treated like any other person that gets sent there. At first, it didn't seem that bad. They gave you a mattress, pillow, and they told you to pick your own room. Sounds nice of them, huh? Yeah, it's nice when most of the cells are already filled with 3 people or some just don't want you there since it's such a small room and you spend a good amount locked in there for the night with the people you chose. Sounds like they are living the life. The funny part is you don't even have to think in jail. You have 3 meals a day and if you are lucky a visitor every once in a while. Me, personally, I think I'd go crazy after just spending a week in the slammer. Speaking about going crazy, a good amount of the people that are in prison have a mental problem that, in my opinion, shouldn't even be in prison! I mean what is this? If the judge had sentenced them to X amount of years to a mental institution for them to get better, then it would make just a little more sense instead of stuffing them into the already filled up jail cells we have in America. When I found out the statistics about the amount of prisoners we had, that was a shock, but an even bigger shock was the fact that most of them need mental help not just to be locked away and forgotten about. The laws that society made up needs some revising, big time. Most of them don't even make sense, I mean I understand if you did a horrible crime like murder then, of course, you should be locked up for good, but not when there's something wrong with you. Oh, and another thing most of the criminals are in jail for drugs and have longer sentences than the ones who committed murder, which is the most ridiculous thing I have ever herd in my life. Yes, I'm aware that some drugs are illegal in the U.S., but come on, life sentence plus another life sentence plus 16 months on parole for taking a drug or selling it. And these murderers get away with just 20 years in prison and are set free to kill again? This sure does not make sense to me, but i guess it does in court.