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We have an under-incarceration problem. See the recent results from El Salvador. I don't lose a second of sleep over the cruel treatment of murderers and violen
by dcist 3y ago
We have an under-incarceration problem. See the recent results from El Salvador. I don't lose a second of sleep over the cruel treatment of murderers and violent criminals.
- w______roy 3y agoOnly ~47% of incarcerated people in US prisons and jails are in for violent crime.
- eynsham 3y ago> recent results from El Salvador I don't think that generalising from one example is a good basis for public policy. > cruel treatment of murderers and violent criminals The whole point of Bukele’s approach is that it does away with due process to lock up actual criminals faster; but it is hard to see how that wouldn’t also involve locking up more innocent people than would be locked up otherwise. It’s very easy to make any policy look good by focusing on its least sympathetic victims, but that doesn’t really address the tradeoffs in question.