SuperNova said:
You decided to ignore the moral of the story though, and that is that even though people make mistakes and always will, with the right education and help along the way, a lot of them will be able turn themselves around into valuable members of society. That's not going to happen if you chop their hands off for petty theft, be it at age five or age sixteen. Most societies have realized that a working taxpayer is more valuable than a cripple, a man wasting away in prison or a dead man. That is why contry in particular has a prison system that is targeted towards rehabilitation and protection rather than punishment. People who are and will remain a danger to society, will remain incarcerated, but everyone else should be helped to reintegrate and become reformed. |
We have a 70% + recidivism rate. Most of these people arent becoming reformed or reintegrated. All I'm suggesting is that we experiment with different approaches. One state can enact extremely tough criminal laws, another state can experiment with Norwegian style rehabilitation and so on. Let the data speak.
