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Where I live the goal of prison is rehabilitation, not the ever greater fulfilment of a christianity-induced punishment fetish (and there are studies that suppo
by atoav 3y ago
Where I live the goal of prison is rehabilitation, not the ever greater fulfilment of a christianity-induced punishment fetish (and there are studies that support that the former is more effective at returning you functioning, tax-paying members of society once the sentence is over).
So while I agree that in the US white colar criminals tend to suspiciously often get the lighter punishment and that this fact is a glaring injustice, I think the US prison system as a whole is so utterly misconstructed, that this cricicism is a drop in a vast ocean of injustices.
- WalterBright 3y agoWhy shouldn't nonviolent offenders go to a minimum security prison?
- atoav 3y agoDid I say that they should not? The point based system you have for assigning people to prison types might look fair, but coupled with predictive policing (aka positive feedback) and the police-tendency to let crimes slip for some demographics and not others, it leads to injustice.