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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
while to some level I would agree I suspect that one of the effects of long term incarceration would make older offenders more prone to violence, when criminals hit their thirties they generally use the connections and skills they have on the outside to find some other lifestyle, if you lock them up from 18 to 35 they hit the streets with absolutely no skills or community connections, utterly institutionalised in hopeless violent jails full of guys with no reason to modify their behaviour as they aint getting out no matter what they do, it is pretty much a perfect breeding ground for violent 35 and 40 year olds
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In the meantime we're letting violent offenders out, where they re-offend within the rest of society though. Surely there's a middle way between straight up incarceration and just letting nature take its course.