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Which crimes would you reduce/remove prison sentences? Murder, rape, assault, fraud, robbery, kidnapping?

• delecti 4y ago
  It was probably imprecise to say "most", because I suppose I don't know the proportional breakdown of which crimes led to all of the convictions, or the breakdown of what all the crimes are. That said, I think most property crime is motivated by desperation, and prison rarely does anything to help improve the lives of someone who only resorted to anti-social behavior because they had little other choice. So I think most robbery should only be punished because of the violent aspect, and most burglary should be "punished" with halfway houses or a system like the Civilian Conservation Corps. I also think drug related crime is a huge waste of time, and that the damage caused by drug dealing/smuggling/manufacturing is a fairly direct result of it being illegal, rather than intrinsic to the "industry". I think the justice system would need to be entirely reformed before it would make sense to reduce prison sentences for violent crime like murder, rape, or kidnapping. Though I think we're doing more harm than good throwing such people in prison for decades without any real rehabilitation involved.
• majewsky 4y ago
  How about jaywalking? Or carrying a gram of weed?
• landemva 4y ago
  Rolling a stop sign. Drunk driving. But if you hit someone while driving, you get charged with felony assualt with a deadly weapon.