re: Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-to-Zero Impact on Crime

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More proof that our prisons aren't tough enough. Make them SOB's a true deterrent and you'll start seeing results.

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So the idea is to take mostly young people with almost no education, often times abused as children, equally often saddled with emotional problems who commit crimes without any idea of what a non criminal life looks like and further brutalize that person and expect them to become upright citizens. Sounds like a sound plan.

The war on drugs has been a catastrophe. Wedve been much better served, and more humane, to have simply executed anyone convicted of any kind of crime that would result in their incarceration. That would satisfy the need for retribution and punishment and would cut down on recividism dramatically.....hard to break the law when you are dead. Tossing young people in prison and subjecting them to brutalizations and then returning them to society is not only proven disastrous but it is cruel.