Re replacing nice jail w/ shorter mean jail term or corporal punishment, many say main purpose of jail is to protect society from convicts. But median time served in state prison is 1.3yrs. Surely convicts are about as dangerous after that wait as before. https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6446#:~:text=The%20average%20time%20served%20by,length%20before%20their%20initial%20release ….
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Also, exile seems a much cheaper way to prevent convict from hurting local society.
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Indeed! David Friedman talks about that in Legal Systems Very Different, and it's a theme in my next novel.
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