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[-] havokdj@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The right to vote is usually taken away but like firearms, it depends.

The hypothetical circumstance you explained doesn't play out like you typically think, they don't always go to prison

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 1 points 11 months ago

Great! Which goes to show, murder is not always something society always wants to punish, so you can, in some cases, kill someone and walk free.

But that aside, we still have the question of should government money, people's tax dollars, go to housing and feeding criminals "for-free"? Again, if the idea is that money is paying for the service of rehabilitation, then yeah, the cost from taxes make sense since it will reintroduce productive people back into society, and we should totally pay. If we can introduce labor that can somehow work towards rehabilitation/education while off-setting costs, great! But from what I'm hearing, especially with the recent stuff in Colorado about inmate labor, that's not what's happening.

this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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