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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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I feel for these people. There are a lot of people who have already learned from their mistakes but will go to jail or prison anyway as punishment.
Obviously i am having to take them at their word here but even probation, monitoring, and community service could be an alternative solution.
I believe in rehabilitation and reintegration, not vengeance.
Also i applaud the honesty.
B-b-but they learned their lesson!!!
Actions have consequences and when you take violent action and hurt others society needs more than just rehab. Violent tendencies generally goes hand in hand with difficulty controlling them. Can you prove this person is already rehab’d and won’t hurt anyone anymore? If they aren’t, how will you ensure they don’t hurt anyone while they are on the way to rehabilitating these dangerous behaviors?
It’s almost like locking people up has purpose when it comes to violent criminals.
How will prison help to make them less violent? And when they're released in 3 years, how will you ensure they don't hurt anyone anymore? We're not saying "don't do anything about criminals", but the current prison system is very explicitly about punishment (and, in the US, about slavery), not rehabilitation. What's needed, more often than not, are psychologists, monitoring and a way to keep them away from their victims. That does not require putting people in cages.