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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thats why we need hard labour sentences that can generate money for these convicts sentences. I'm all for bringing back road gangs who can clear areas, do road repair, repair buildings etc.
While there are more lenient systems out there, I'm betting that the complaints from the people there are similar.
While part of prison sentences have to take rehabilitation into account our prisons do have that aspect, there has to be both a punishment associated with the crime and a public safety aspect.
In this guys case, he's a multiple offender so obviously going easy on him didn't work, he continued the behavior, plus the drunk driving crime is inexusible and selfish, there's no excuse for it.
5 years might be fine depending on how long he served, even though I don't believe it because he murdered this woman in what I interpret as an intentional manner. I have a lot of trouble with a limited driving ban as well.
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Good points, I appreciate the well thought out response over the usual pitch fork style that seems to dominate these threads.
The labor angle is interesting, does anyone know the basis behind doing away with such programs?