November 9, 2003, 10:45
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
I disagree. It's much more important to rehab the criminal than it is to punish them because punishment (well, severe punishment) would breed resentment, which is counter to the rehabilitation objective.
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There are cases in which this is simply impossible. Psychopaths, for example.
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November 9, 2003, 12:35
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punishing the criminals via assrape.
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November 9, 2003, 23:35
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Originally posted by Azazel
There are cases in which this is simply impossible. Psychopaths, for example.
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Then you just dump them in the middle of a desert and have them plant trees 
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November 9, 2003, 23:53
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Wharehousing crimminals seems to be the only effective fuction of prisons. Rehabilitation is an abject failure, deterrence is very limited. Locking up crimminals for longs periods has been what has worked in the USA. In most cases, when the criminals get out they are commiting more crimes. The biggest factor is decreasing crimes rates in the USA has been increasing sentences.
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November 10, 2003, 00:03
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One of the nicknames for prison here is "the college" i.e. college of crime.
That's why judges try very hard here to keep people out of jail, especially young people.
Jails should be about rehabilitation. We don't want people to come out worse crims than they went in.
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November 10, 2003, 02:55
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keeping dangerous people away from the rest of us
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