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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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when you lose deterrence you get war
if you want to lower that 75% recidivism rate you need to deter criminals
so how do you do that?
the poor countries never forgot how to do that but we "enlightened" 1st world nations have