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Originally Posted by Paul M
Yes it does.
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How come there's still violent crime in America, China and Saudi Arabia, how comes people we're still murdering when we used to hang them or thieving when we used to hang children for stealing bread. Fact is criminals don't expect to get caught committing crime, that's why they still commit them in those countries mentioned. It's a complicated issue that deserves to be treated with more respect than a throw away line that's no better than "religion causes all wars". That said I do seem to remember reading somewhere that to shorter sentence doesn't help recidivism rates and the ideal tariff to turn a prisoner around was two years but then that was when there was money invested in prisons and they weren't farmed out to private companies to squeeze as much profit out of it as possible.