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I think it's crazy the number is people here who think that jail/prison is supposed to primarily be about punishment. Do they not understand the concept of recitavism?
I think that's an American thing compared to the rest of the world. Their prisons seem to be very much about punishment over rehabilitation.
Former Christian fundamentalist here. I think it's a religious thing, actually. It's very common in conservative religion in America to believe that there are good and evil things and people, and all you need to do is punish evil things and people. Any problems that exist are punishment from God for allowing evil instead of punishing it. Everything will be solved magically by God once you and your society are "righteous" enough (disapproving enough of evil), something which will never actually happen because this will literally just make things worse, providing more evidence of God's wrath.
This religious belief has influences far beyond the fundamentalist religion it came from, and it really helps explain why so many right wing movements are so contradictory and hypocritical.
Everyone else is out here thinking things like "if there's a problem, we need to figure out the solution" while a solid third or more of the American people is literally thinking that they just need to hurt the right people and God will fix it.
(Source: I grew up in the Christian right)
By rest of the world you mean Europe? Latinamerican, African and Asian jails are nightmares compared with US's ones.
I assumed I was largely dealing with Americans on here. Are those other countries jails bad due to a desire to punish or lack of funding available as they aren't rich nations?
I would guess that's depends on the country, all of those have problems with funding, but they differ on the punitive philosophy. For example argentinean prisoners can get jobs that pay the legal minimum wage and all the normal labor rights any worker enjoys, in Brazil they can read books and wrote essays about them to commute prison time, but their jails still lack proper infrastructure and are overcrowded.
Recidivism:
the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.
"the prison has succeeded in reducing recidivism"
Good bot.
I... think that is a human
Goodest bot.
W'ell compromise, Good Cyborg.
I am all for mitigating recidivism. I also think some people are just evil and won't reform. Someone who did the things SBF did won't reform.
See also: This asshole.
I'm surprised there are no prison rape jokes this time, people love those
It is certainly odd, though I bet that's going to change. For some strange reason people love talking about that stuff and even though it hasn't appeared in this thread yet it probably will soon.
Edit: it already happened, someone decided to say that they wondered how chewed he's going to be. You all just can't help yourself with the rape jokes, can you?
What does the idea of punishing people even solve in the first place? It doesn't help them, in fact it actually hurts them. It doesn't teach them how to be better people, so they're likely to do the same thing again. Oh yeah and it wastes resources on punishing these people, resources that could be going to regular people but are instead essentially being wasted to torture someone instead of trying to help them.
I bet somebody's going to come out of the woodwork and try and argue that prison helps people somehow, by punishing them and making them scared, though I've found that making people scared is the wrong way of going about making them into a better person, because scared people just like animals will react, and it's not pretty when they do.
Punishing evildoers doesn't hurt me, it only helps me. What does hurt me and millions of other Americans is when looney-bin cultists like you take the worst offenders and exploit them to manipulate and bully their victims and the victims' supporters into caving to your insane demands just so you can make yourself feel better. That's what actually hurts people.
That's some mental gymnastics to claim someone disagreeing with you is hurting people.
It’s because most people saying this shit live in America where all prisons are for pure cruelty and punishment, not rehabilitation.
You see, here in America prisons are an industry that generates profits for stakeholders. True rehabilitation would cut into their profits, therefore they do everything in their power to ensure you never leave, and if you do they will leave you with enough mental trauma and behavioral issues that you will return.
Corporate media propaganda ensures americans continue to support this shit just like all the rest of the fucked up shit around here. Thanks corporate America!
If SBF was free, he would clearly not be able to reoffend. Some folk go to prison for "rehabilitation," some to die, but his sentence is a punishment.
Grifters find a new way to grift all the time. He'd reoffend as soon as he was able.
Then he should not be released.
Nah, the vegans absolutely will demand Sam Bankman-Fried's release on the basis that he's not getting gourmet vegan meals anymore, simply because all they really care about is their veganism and not other people.
All the loonies care about are themselves.
He hasn't been sentenced or convicted yet.