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mooreandrew58 posted...

I work with a guy that feels prison should be as rough as possible but the sentences should be drastically shorter. His logic is they'll be grateful they survived even just two years of it and never wanna come back.

Personally, I feel that a lot of criminality should be treated as a mental illness and addressed as such. Rehabilitation needs to go a lot further than just skills-training and trying to actively engage them in society so they don't re-offend because there are underlying issues driving a lot of that criminal behavior. Granted, unless we take steps to mitigate some of the largest drivers of criminality -- including alcohol abuse and improving the overall culture -- not only will people slide back into old habits, but we'll also have more people offending in the first place.

And if we had a proper system in place, sentencing for a lot of crimes might only require a tiny fraction of the time used now while generating a far greater result so society would lose far less productivity.

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