The actual answer to your question lies in whether you believe prisons end result is supposed to be for punishment, rehabilitation, or a combination of the 2.
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1) protect society from criminals at least during their time in prison. 2) deter future criminals: credible threat of prison prevents some people who might be otherwise tempted 3) punish. So that victims or their families don’t enact revenge on their own. 4) reform
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Replying to @LogankillsDaken @TheFates4 and
Lol 1) score points for "tough on crime" politicians. 2) create value for private prison investors. 3) destroy communities that could significantly disrupt the status quo if organized 4) punish people mostly for property crimes or low level drug offenses Welcome to America
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Replying to @Figgis_Newtonia @TolstoyNeo and
Yes. People wishing an abolition of prison and police forget that this would not lead to peace but rather to a reign of warlords and militias. Much more ruthless.
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Replying to @LogankillsDaken @Figgis_Newtonia and
Humans have lived in societies free of the punitive, purposefully-inhumane style of American prisons without being ruled by bloodthirsty warlords. Stop making things.
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Replying to @TolstoyNeo @Figgis_Newtonia and
American prisons could certainly be improved. Some societies prefer « eye for an eye ». No prison but instead financial compensation, corporal punishment or death. Do you know of any society where stealing , raping, killing would have had no consequence ?
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Replying to @LogankillsDaken @Figgis_Newtonia and
Did I ever claim a society has existed which didn't punish those types of crimes against people? You're delving into the territory of building a strawman, exposing the weakness of your larger point.
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Replying to @Figgis_Newtonia @LogankillsDaken and
I literally fucking based my entire point around American prison you thoughtless fucking putz. Go get your fucking shinebox.
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You’re a communist. Read Chalamov and decide if Soviet prisons were better.
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