Shitty politicians aside, the answers cannot be limited to "in a cell" vs "out of a cell". Unless we want to keep half of our population incarcerated indefinitely, we need to implement programs to help these folk not only reintegrate back into society but also be able to function socially and professionally within it.
We certainly shouldn't keep half our population incarcerated indefinitely, but maybe half of the killers. The offender here had been serving a life sentence for a prior homicide.
Pretty sure this dude was a killer already, which on average means they were a general threat to society. Like that probably is the one group you do want to imprison for life or otherwise kill if you can't do that, like it's easier to list killers who did it for moral reasons and half of those are members of historical militia like the Rednecks in the county and union wars or the abolitionist militia from the lead up to the civil war.
I don't think half the population are criminals. I would think it's a much smaller percentage of that. Maybe like 1%. The problem Is that the justice system is rigged especially all the stuff they came up with after the slaves were freed.
I think closer to 100% of the population is criminals.
I honestly doubt you can get through a single day in america without technically committing a crime, unless you don't get out of bed. Even then, it would likely take some prep work to solve potentially criminal things happening spontaneously.
Of course when we talk about criminals, we don't mean people that do crime, we mean people that do certain crimes (or in some very wild cases refuse to do certain crimes).
And we need to accept that there will be some recidivism.
And we need to accept that some can’t be saved and need to be locked up forever
Was commuting his sentence part of his ICE agent signing bonus?
We need to FREE Child Murderers and Rapists from PRISON!
-People who show up ARMED to Drag Shows to PROTECT THE CHILDREN TM!
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Oh, it's worse than you think. The article doesn't really say much, but if you look for it, it does say this (emphases mine):
Mark Milk, 51, also of Sioux Falls, now faces five counts related to her death. Milk was almost three decades into a life term on a manslaughter conviction when Noem commuted his sentence in 2023.
Milk faces five counts including possession with intent to deliver cocaine that caused Wendel’s death. He is also charged with transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to court documents.
She was fourteen.
What a fucking travesty.
Please wake me when MAGA pardons or commutes the sentence of someone who actually deserved clemency, as opposed to literal war criminals, insurrectionists and killers.
Broken clock and all... but I actually don't think Ross Ulbricht deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison. Hard time? Sure. Life without parole? Absolutely not. Actual murderers get less.
I think you forgot child rapists.
How did Noem ever have the legal power to render a pardon???? Oops. forgot she was a state governor. I was thinking of her DHS role.
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