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Originally Posted by Johnny199r
Canada probably has the most lenient justice system in the world. And that's after the Conservatives toughened up the criminal code.
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...ed-like-people
From the warden of the prison:
"In closed prisons we keep them locked up for some years and then let them back out, not having had any real responsibility for working or cooking. In the law, being sent to prison is nothing to do with putting you in a terrible prison to make you suffer. The punishment is that you lose your freedom. If we treat people like animals when they are in prison they are likely to behave like animals. Here we pay attention to you as human beings."
Less than 30% of the inmates in this prison re-offend. Nobody likes to think of criminals as people, but they still have lives after jail. I would guess that for most, the impact their conviction and incarceration has had on their lives is VASTLY disproportionate to their crime. It seems wasteful to abandon so much human potential.