LogFAQs > #940044858

Zeus posted...

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.

I quite agree, but until prison sentences are structured that way and society gets over its collective vengeance boner, 10 years is still a very short sentence for first-degree murder. That prison as a whole ought to be reformed doesn't mean a sentence that's too short to adequately protect society or be a real deterrent is okay while prison is still being used as a deterrent/isolation tool.

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