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Like heroin and status signaling through your beliefs?
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Now THAT is interesting. If the first principle of prison is to remove an individual from broader society, then the other two basic options are execution or banishment, both of which cost less resources by a mile.
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There’s a 3rd. Lock up the very worst and suffer the rest. Call it the Honduran strategy
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Substitution effect. Imprisoning people is expensive -having lots of cops suppress crime is comparatively cheap. When we got rich we decided to expensively incarcerate people so we could pretend we didn't need lots of police.
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This makes a lot of sense. We stopped hanging people for horse thievery around the time we became rich and the cost of both a horse and incarceration fell.
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the richer you are the more humane you can afford to be, so actually our justice system is superior to others. maybe US foreign aid should pay for prisons in poorer countries, this may do them more good than what our money is currently spent on
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in a classic lefty inversion, prisons which replaced historical harsher punishments became symbol of the harshest punishment themselves
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