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Originally Posted by fintstone
Your standards are quite low. We want retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is the last and least.
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Be careful with the "we". You're certainly entitled to order things in the way you want, but don't generalize. I for one put your first two last. I want deterrence and rehabilitation.
A useful member of society is no longer a risk, and also no longer a cost. It costs 35-50k annually to incarcerate someone for start.
Also, there is a reason its called a penitentiary., not a warehouse.
All that said, this thread is an example that we can have a civilized discussion of these issues. Maybe it should go to PARF, but I think part of the problem is that discourse is more effective if you have to keep the gloves on a bit.