"Prisons are good for punishing criminals and keeping them off the street, but prison sentences (particularly long sentences) are unlikely to deter future crime. Prisons actually may have the opposite effect: Inmates learn more effective crime strategies.https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterrence#:~:text=Sending%20an%20individual%20convicted%20of,unlikely%20to%20deter%20future%20crime …
Versus reinventing the wheel, if you could pick one country where we fully adopt every single criminal practice, which would it be? How would they handle: 1. Fentanyl dealing illegal hondos 2. 15 X car theft in 12 months 3. CVS brazen shoplifting 4. Cyclist running red lights
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Despite using incarceration in a much more limited fashion europe and countries worldwide have recognized the existential threats posed by pandemic raging in mass incarceration system, and released prisoners, who they might have otherwise held.https://www.courthousenews.com/europe-released-128000-prisoners-to-prevent-virus-outbreaks/ …
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Of those I think 2,3 need attention from whatever our criminal justice system is, but I would hope for a less expensive and more creative solution than incarceration for both of them. 1,4 should get no response in my view from our criminal justice system.
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My other response didn't really answer the question though 1/4. I know from personal experience that throughout europe drugs are even more prevalently used as they are here, however incarceration isn't the pervasive system it is here. Drug laws seem mostly not enforced overseas
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2/4 In any moment not a pandemic a repeat car thief gets the attention of the criminal justice system. When the pandemic is over I hope that even our 15 time motorcycle thief sees the consequences for the crimes he has committed.
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