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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
That's a worthless standard. You are safe until you aren't.
With criminals being returned to the population the same criminals they were when they went in, we are filling not only prisons but the general population with bad guys.
On the other hand, with 5 year recidivism rate of about 75% most of them are only a threat for another five years before they go back under government control. So you have that going for you.
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That is the crux of the problem - the recidivism rate speaks volumes about how "successful" our current system is... not. And yet, after decades of this level of "success" we still have our "empathists" blaming society and telling us we just need to try harder.
Yes, there is a societal component to this, and we have discussed that at length. It does reach a point, however, after we have done our best, that the criminal himself must be held personally accountable to a much higher degree than they are today. We reach a point with many of them were it is obvious beyond words that they simply do not want to change and never will. Yet we release them back into society, knowing full well they will offend once again. Why? Why do we do this to ourselves? It's insane.