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red sox 777 posted...

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.

I was talking about in the example of life sentences/death penalty alternatives. For nonviolent crimes you can do both early release and post-release rehab programs. Sentencing also needs reforms but also it shouldn't be used to just jail most people indefinitely. That's obviously defeating the point.

It's a very messy system that could stand many improvements.

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DPOblivion was far more determined than me.