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> many with criminal convictions are bad people What do you do with "bad people?" Are they to be forever a drain on society? I agree that it's a government iss

• dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  >What do you do with "bad people? I think he's usually using it synonymous with "deadbeats you don't want to hire anyway"
  • foxhop 8y ago
    I think our biggest problem is we bundle a huge part of the "criminal" spectrum together. The fact that we incarcerate for drug possession seems pretty strange. Petty crimes have way too high of cost in and out of prison. I associated with a boy in highschool who shortly after graduation murdered two unarmed people in their home with a sawed off shotgun. I would consider him a very bad person. Both the petty and the extreme carry the same label. Each join the untouchable class. I'm not sure how to fix that, but it's an issue worth solving
    • photik 8y ago
      I use to work in youth corrections. A gang unit I worked on housed one young guy who got behind the wheel drunk on his sixteenth birthday and accidentally killed someone, and another young man who contracted an STI from his girlfriend and decapitated her. These two young men slept 3ft apart and were treated equivalently by the system. You've pinpointed a major flaw that is mostly invisible to the public.
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