Remedy For Prison Crowding: Restitution Or Indentured Servitude

Common Sense Commentary: "Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap" Gal.6:7
The National problem, of overpopulation in our prisons, is a result of both unfair laws and unenforced good laws.  An unfair law often forces law abiding citizens to violate it.  This, in turn, causes disrespect, in some degree, for other laws.  When people disrespect an unfair law or two, they begin to disrespect law in general and lose some of their confidence in the legal system and those who legislate it, judge it and even those who enforce it.

A good law which is not enforced equally or not at all, encourages more violations of that law.  Knowingly violating one law with impunity, makes it easier to violate another and another or at least to
lose confidence in the legal system  which also leads to the eventual disintegration of  a civil system.
When law begins to break down, order and safety go with it and eventually a world power like Rome becomes a bankrupt, corrupt, little country like Italy.  The British Empire becomes what it is today... broken and weak. The Powerful Spanish Empire becomes another weak, little, indebted state. And finally, the USA, because of political and corporate corruption plus dumb, dumb, dumb political decisions, is a basket case.  The breakdown is now obvious in the levels of crime, drugs, ineffective government regulating agencies, and political and corporate dishonesty. Witness the Presidents entire cabinet, Wall Street insider trading, ponzie schemes, stock market manipulation, multi-million dollar bonuses to CEO's of mediocre and failing companies, bribes, lobbyist payoffs, ACORN, and a thousand other examples. And that is only the top echelon of a Giza's Pyramid  of State and City governments, not to mention a  seeming majority of ordinary citizens. The spread of law-breaking increases exponentially when citizens see politicians, government agencies and corporations violate our laws and common decency without prosecution or even removal from office.

Several states are releasing non-violent offenders from prisons because of overcrowding.  If those kinds of criminals were required by law, to make complete restitution plus additional loss, it would stop a lot of such crimes and reduce prison overcrowding too, plus not costing the taxpayers to house, feed and guard them.


Restitution Plus, is what God's law "requires", but our government and Liberal Socialist Planners have gotten too sophisticated and wiser than God .... to resort to the common sense of His Bible.  God's laws "require" both a reasonable limit to revenge and punishment by pain and loss for the guilty.

I.  Capital Punishment - God's original, singular Civil Law was, "Blood for blood & life for life".
"And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.  Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man." Gen.9:5-6.
This is not individual revenge but societal justice administer by a civilized societie's government.

   (1) That one, original law was retained and expounded upon in the sixth Commandment: Ex.20:13
"Thou shalt not kill" (This Heb. word is "ratsach" and means "murder". When Jesus quoted this verse in Matt.19:18, He said, "Thou shalt do no murder."  God also expanded on the ten Commandments in the three chapters following them including the 6th, "Thou shalt not kill"  in the next chapter.....  Ex.21:12 ..."He that smiteth (hits) a man, so that he dies, shall be surely put to death." So we see the difference between "kill" or murder and "put to death"  which is a different Heb. word "muth" which means "to execute". So God said, in Ex.20:13 "Thou shalt not kill" and in the very next chapter, "If anyone kills another, kill HIM".  But the first word is murder and the second is execution by society as God said in that original command Gen. 9:5-6.  If these two verses, in Exodus, were in different parts of the Bible, atheists, agnostics, and Liberal preachers might dare to say it was a contradiction. But the two types of death are just a few verses apart and both together within the Law Of God and not subject to question.

  (2) Kidnapping - God requires Execution. See Ex.21:16.

  (3) Abortion with "Mischief"- God requires Execution. See Ex.21:22-23.

  (4) Loss of eye, tooth, hand, foot - God requires eye for eye, tooth for tooth. See Ex.21:24-26.

  (5) Dangerous animals who kill -  Kill the animal. But if the animal had gotten out previously and the owner warned, gets out again and kills someone, both the animal and owner are to be executed. Ex.21:28-29.  Pit Bulldogs come to mind.  This penalty would certainly put a stop to owning bad dogs, unfenced.

II. Misdemeanor Punishment and Restitution. Today's offenders, if caught, pay fines to the Civil Authorities but often the victims of crime are never made whole through Restitution from offenders.

  (1) Crimes against a person's livelihood ... Ex.22:1-15.  If a thief steals a sheep or oxen, the owner has lost the benefit of annual wool sales, a new crop of lambs,  and meat for sale or for his family's use. His oxen are  used to pull wagons or sleds, for ploughing his fields, fertilizer, milk and annual calves. His livelihood and family have suffered great loss of income if sheep or oxen are stolen. So if a sheep was stolen and the thief caught, he was "required" to make restitution of four sheep for the one.  If he stole an ox, his restitution was five oxen for the one ox. That is both restitution and punishment by his lose.

(2) Crimes against property - a. Accidental Damage or loss required reimbursement in an equal amount.  b. Theft required double the damage or loss.  c. wildfire damage or loose grazing animals in a neighbors field or garden, required equal restitution.

  (3) Trespass against a Trust with Perjury by trustees, lawyers or anyone else required restitution of 100% of loss plus 20% to the victim and  a near perfect ram as a "trespass" offering to God. If the criminal could not pay the restitution for any of the above crimes, he could then be sold into indentured servitude until the debt was paid.  If you do not agree with indentured servitude, you disagree with God, not me, and you find yourself identifying with the criminal rather than the victim as is common with Liberal Socialists.  If indentured servitude is hard to swallow, out of control crime and corruption is even harder to digest.

We desperately need a restoration in America of Law and Order, individual responsibility, honor, justice, honesty with transparency in government and business.  We are not headed in that direction.

Pass it on. RB