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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 7

    The US criminal justice system is based on 19th-century methods of crime reduction, yielding injustice to the accused + danger to the public. With 21st-C tech (electronic monitoring) we can do better (as Europe already does).https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/03/19/criminal-justice-reform-electronic-monitoring-future/ …

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      1. JMF‏ @systemrip Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        The U.S. criminal justice system has terrible outcomes and is a human rights disaster, at all levels. Its evidence-free, irrational implementation is a worldwide embarrassment.

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      1. Shiv Saxena‏ @shivownz Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Great idea. Let's split the difference and pop one on every citizen. Let that government leviathan keep us safe.

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      2. Bronwyn Williams‏ @bronwynwilliams Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Yes. As far as I'm concerned, only convicted criminals who are a physical threat (ie committed a contact/violent crime) should serve any time at all - punishment should fit crime - economic/political etc crime should have financial or political punishments - not physical ones.

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      3. Paper-mâché Brains and Gore‏ @juxtapositionT Aug 7
        Replying to @bronwynwilliams @sapinker

        Except that financial and political crimes have deadly consequences for the underprivileged These things dont happen in a vacuum with no fallout

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      4. CoreFitBarrett‏ @corefitbarrett Aug 7
        Replying to @juxtapositionT @bronwynwilliams @sapinker

        Wait! Example? Citation? How do you qualify that statement at all?

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      5. Paper-mâché Brains and Gore‏ @juxtapositionT Aug 7
        Replying to @corefitbarrett @bronwynwilliams @sapinker

        Usually I wait until people engage with me as a person, and not with some sort of excited demand.

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      1. RA Hviding‏ @RA_Hviding Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Might as well call it the"injustice system". Lock people up as animals, brand them with a record destroying all potential of redemption as a contributing member of society, let them out after institutionalization. Great f-ing plan, its putting out a forest fire with gasoline.

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      1. Tony Mountjoy‏ @VerbotenPublish Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Well...I guess it's cheaper than funding better schools and after school programs to deter the criminal lifestyle in the first place.

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      1. I'm Literally a Communist‏ @TreasureAriza Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        ew national review really?

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      1. ScepticalStan  🇨🇿‏ @Sceptical_Stan Aug 8
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        I disagree.19th century methods were more efficient. I think forced work was much better "treatment" than letting them rot in cels

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      1. Mark Ledwich‏ @mark_ledwich Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Takes me back to the free will debate you had with Greene and Dennett. Dennett said that even without libertarian free will, retribution in the US criminal justice system was defencible. You guys needed some examples like this at the time.

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      1. CherryTeresa‏ @cherryteresa Aug 7
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        Taxpayers are paying a lot for an ankle monitor program that doesn't workhttp://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-rall-ankle-monitors-probation-20140219-story.html …

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      1. paul sailer‏ @paul_sailer Aug 7
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        Got any figures on the cost of monitoring all these bracelets that would be used for the hundreds of thousands who would qualify?

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      1. CreamyCentrist‏ @CreamyCentrist Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        This sounds great but pitch-wise, the allure of "as Europe already does" fell off a cliff in the last few years.

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      1. BlueDogDemocrat‏ @dog_democrat Aug 7
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        Fantastic article! Thank you for sharing.

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