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You are right. Because these same people, are released in 5-10-20 years and are then someone's neighbor. Rarely any job skills to speak of. Often very little
by nknwn 10y ago
You are right. Because these same people, are released in 5-10-20 years and are then someone's neighbor.
Rarely any job skills to speak of.
Often very little in the way of education or resources to improve.
So the end result 80-90% of the time is to resort to the familiar crowd and routine.
- Senji 10y agoWe need to bring Exile back. That and death sentances federally.
- nknwn 10y agoIt is largely the poor and uneducated people who go to prison.
- bluedino 10y agoThey don't just "go to prison", that demographic commits crimes that send them to prison.
- danharaj 10y agoAnd the other demographics commit crimes that don't end up with the justice system^ sending them to prison. They're often the same crime. ^ Crimes don't do anything, of course. It's the people in charge who decide who goes to prison.
- pmiller2 10y agoAnd can't pay for lawyers to get them off.
- kaybe 10y agoExile to where? Alaska?
- hawkice 10y agoThere would be a perverse irony in Trump sending American murderers and rapists to Mexico.
- wtbob 10y agoNot the worst idea ever: it's large, inhospitable and the climate is not especially conducive to layabouts (although the long winter darkness would probably be well-correlated to depression and violence).
- Senji 10y agoWe could try mars. We just send more and more in batches with resources. Until they start dying off in too large a quantity. Hey, if it worked for the Americas and Australia.
- paulddraper 10y agoWorse: Delaware
- Senji 10y agoYou get to pick. Then we drop you off with a helicopter.
- digi_owl 10y agoIt seems USA is hell bent on turning into the very thing it once despised...