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Originally Posted by Eric Bachrach
but each rehabilitated prisoner saves us a shitload of money
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For every violent rehab there are 500 return customers. That may be a conservative estimate.
I have no issue expanding the slate of capital crimes.
But what we really need is a return to the Constitutionally guaranteed speedy trial.
I am equally comfortable with either of these scenarios:
Korea - if you are imprisoned its your family's responsibility to feed, clothe and otherwise see to your mortal concerns. If they cease to support you, its a death sentence with a short fuse.
Germany - if you are sentenced you go in a VERY spartan cell and apart from 30 minutes once a week you stay there. If you spoil it, you smell it until its hosed down periodically. If you destroy what little you have that can be destroyed, you lose it. You have the option to accept books to read but if you destroy a book, no more. BUT, and this is VERY significant... once you serve your time, your record is wiped clean, you start afresh without prejudice. The rate of return customers is very low as prison is truly unpleasant and its NOT a junior college for organized crime.
Kurt Vonnegut - all crime is punished by the Hook. Think fishing if you have not read Cat's Cradle.