Two wrongs don't make a right. It certainly satisfies some primal urge to see a criminal get punished, but we also need to distinguish between young individual

Two wrongs don't make a right. It certainly satisfies some primal urge to see a criminal get punished, but we also need to distinguish between young individuals in difficult circumstances making bad choices from how we decide to run our societal systems—there needs to be a higher bar for the latter. Leaving humanitarian issues aside for a moment: do privatized prisons w/ a punishment mentality actually reduce crime?