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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
This the second time l have heard a story of this kind of person from USA,` There is a judge in America, that even if you have commited a first offence, you go straight to prison, no messing, if the courts in this country did, that, you would cut half the crime overnight, he believes that if you commit a crime, you don't deserves the luxuries of life - your freedom.
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I wonder why crime is rampant in the US then? they have a very strict penal system as you mentioned but it hasn't worked there. The answer in my opinion is not just the lock em up theory because it obviously doesn't work, listening to what the Tories were proposing the other day makes a lot of sense, in that as soon as a person leaves prison he has to go straight to the job center and register with a personal advisor. He/she will then be coached in interview tactics and generally projecting themselves in a positive way for the job market, ex-cons are not going to be allowed to come out of prison go straight onto the dole and fester, I think the Tories are on to something here.
As a society we don't want prisoners being habitual recidivists for the rest of their lives, so we need to rehabilitate them for
all our sakes, this means more than just banging them up and ignoring them, otherwise as I said earlier we all suffer and nobody wins.