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Originally Posted by D-Fender
Depends what law is broken.
If someone kills someone on the road, it's not 'just another car accident'.
If someone speeds and ends up killing anyone other than themselves, I want to see them to time in a cell. And not just a few months time either, serious time.
Same if they are drunk or drugged.
You end someone's life, you should be locked up for the rest of yours.
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I reckon prison sentences (in most cases) are a mistake ... but finding an effective alternative is not easy!
Why? because prison sentences just put people into a context of lots of criminals and others where they often they learn criminal conduct. So prisons become schools for criminals ... at taxpayers' expense! Its also a cruel form of punishment.
There should be just, and severe if necessary, punishment for wrongdoers. I just reckon prison is a lousy way of doing it, where nobody benefits. Not the victims, not society, not the taxpayers, and not the offenders.
Prisons should only be used for remand centres, and for prisoners who are simply too dangerous to release.
Willem