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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 252: Voiding Our Special Relationship
red sox 777 12/13/19 5:13:47 PM #430:	HeroDelTiempo17 posted... No one is advocating for Arkham Asylum style "rehabilitation" where Harley Quinn falls in love with The Joker and deems him sane and Two-Face keeps tricking the doctors. Come on. The entire point of advocating rehabilitation is to make the process better, and that's also why violent criminals are lowest priority compared to rehab for non-violent offenses and improving prison conditions in general. If you don't or can't make a fair assessment, or it's impossible to rehab someone, then don't let them out. But the problem is that if you take the position that if you can't determine if someone is rehabilitated they stay in prison, the result is that they stay in prison for longer. Longer than they would have if there was no rehab -> release provision, because the starting sentence will be longer in a world in which people can be released early. Either that, or the deterrent effect of the sentence will be less because the average served sentence will be less. So people end up in prison not because of what they did, as determined a jury, but based on what a team of doctors think about them. That's really troubling to me. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! <cite>red sox 777 posted [p:931544450] in Politics C... [t:78241503]...</cite> <quote>HeroDelTiempo17 posted... </cite> <quote>No one is advocating for Arkham Asylum style "rehabilitation" where Harley Quinn falls in love with The Joker and deems him sane and Two-Face keeps tricking the doctors. Come on. The entire point of advocating rehabilitation is to make the process better, and that's also why violent criminals are lowest priority compared to rehab for non-violent offenses and improving prison conditions in general. If you don't or can't make a fair assessment, or it's impossible to rehab someone, then don't let them out.</quote> But the problem is that if you take the position that if you can't determine if someone is rehabilitated they stay in prison, the result is that they stay in prison for longer. Longer than they would have if there was no rehab -> release provision, because the starting sentence will be longer in a world in which people can be released early. Either that, or the deterrent effect of the sentence will be less because the average served sentence will be less. So people end up in prison not because of what they did, as determined a jury, but based on what a team of doctors think about them. That's really troubling to me. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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