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Given the number of criminals I see on the streets, I certainly wouldn't call the US's current situation "mass incarceration". I would say the US has a shockin
by hugh4 11y ago
Given the number of criminals I see on the streets, I certainly wouldn't call the US's current situation "mass incarceration".
I would say the US has a shockingly massive crime problem.
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- SeldomSoup 11y agoWe account for ~4% of the world's population and ~25% of the world's prisoners.
- memonkey 11y agoWhere do you live? What kind of criminals committing what kind of crimes are you seeing on the streets? Or are you speaking of what you see in the media?
- PythonicAlpha 11y agoMaybe it would be great to know, why the US (the richest country of the earth) has such a massive crime problem.
- ougachooga 11y agoHow are you identifying all these criminals in the streets?
- informatimago 11y agodrug, gun.
- DanBC 11y agoGiven that the US incarcerates more than any other nation (however you measure that), and assuming you're correct[1] would you then say that more prison is needed? Or would you say that prison clearly isn't working, and maybe we should try something that is cheaper, provides better justice to the victims of crime, reduces recidivism, and doesn't destroy the lives of criminals or their relatives? [1] that you see many criminals, and that the US has a shockingly massive crime problem
- hugh4 11y agoI certainly think that corporal punishment is an idea worth revisiting for minor crimes, and that perhaps we could expand the use of the death penalty for repeat offenders, but these ideas have fallen out of fashion too.
- DanBC 11y ago...they fell out of fashion because they don't work, let alone that they're horrific human rights abuses.