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You can, however, give a body-cavity search to a prisoner after visitation. Plus, from my perspective, the first priority of any prison should be rehabilitatio
by chmod775 11y ago
You can, however, give a body-cavity search to a prisoner after visitation.
Plus, from my perspective, the first priority of any prison should be rehabilitation and reintegration of the prisoner into society.
- ajmurmann 11y agoRehabilitation and integration are not goals in the US. It's punishment and deterring criminals. It's dumb and antiquated old testament morale beyond believe.
- zo1 11y agoLet's not single out the US for that. There are quite a lot of places (many even worse than the US) that use imprisonment for punishment and as a deterrent, rather than rehabilitation. It's society's dirty little secret, that some members of it just want "Bad People" to be punished.
- peteretep 11y agoThere are no other modern rich, democratic countries with anything even approaching the incarceration rate or minimum sentencing insanity the US has, so it's entirely proper to single the US out.
- emodendroket 11y agoThe Japanese system is deeply troubled too although in different ways.
- lunchTime42 11y agoYes, they have old people who dont get enough for a pension. That is troubling as so far, as it prooves that people can in the end vote with there hands and feets against the free market approach of everyone insure himself against beeing poor at old age.
- emodendroket 11y agoI'm talking about the justice system. I'm not quite sure what you are talking about.
- lunchTime42 11y agoThe recently posted HN Article about the elederly in japan stealing to avoid the penalty of beeing poor for a honest live in capitalism.
- tobltobs 11y agoThe good old "That is fine because Russia, China and Somalia are worse." reply.
- zo1 11y agoGuess you missed the part where I generalized it to "Society". But sure.
- ashitlerferad 11y agoWhy are those not goals of the US prison system? How can that be changed?
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- pc86 11y agoCertainly it should not come at the expense of the physical security of visitors and staff though, right?
- tropo 11y agoYou could keep things out of body cavities. Put on a helmet and a chastity belt, securely locked in place.