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Three strikes and you’re out isn’t about retribution, it’s about the strong evidence that the specific deterrence and rehabilitation effect of prison will not w
by bradleyjg 4y ago
Three strikes and you’re out isn’t about retribution, it’s about the strong evidence that the specific deterrence and rehabilitation effect of prison will not work on a particular individual.
- p_j_w 4y ago>rehabilitation effect of prison There is no such effect in the USA. Prisons are 100% not designed to rehabilitate anyone here.
- xtracto 4y agoWhat do you think of Danny Trejo's rehabilitation [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo#Life_of_crime_and_incarceration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo#Life_of_crime_and_...
- p_j_w 4y agoOne person rehabbing doesn't invalidate the mountains of evidence the other way.
- burnished 4y agoAnyone guilty of wage theft getting hit by that law? Just saying, in practice its clearly not about jailing menaces to society.
- bradleyjg 4y agoDo you know of anyone that’s been convicted of wage theft, sent to prison, convicted of a new count of wage theft, sent to prison, and convicted of a new count of wage theft … or did you just want to flog your hobbyhorse regardless of how poor the fit was?
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- rurp 4y agoOf course not, their whole point was that nobody gets prosecuted for wage theft despite it being common.
- ashwagary 4y ago>wage theft despite it being common. Worse than being common, I heard US wage theft eclipses all other theft in the US combined.
- burnished 4y agoThat is, funnily enough, precisely the point.