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The United States now spends some $200 billion on the correctional system each year, a sum that exceeds the gross domestic product of twenty-five US states and 140 foreign countries.
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A prisonless society where murderers were systematically executed and rapists were automatically castrated wouldn’t be the most humane society imaginable, but it would be light-years ahead of the status quo.
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What a stupid article. It ignores two very important facts: 1) you can't have a prisonless society unless you intend to punish
all crimes with the death penalty or castration, not just murder and rape and 2) the reason America's prison system costs so much is because of the war on drugs. The vast majority of people serving time in US prisons are there for drug-related crimes, not murder or rape. Statistically, violent crime has been
decreasing in the US for decades.