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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I don't agree the US is a reasonable natural experiment. Their system is so unbelievably broken that you can't compare it to any other country imo, because the other factors overwhelm.
If there were two US states with different sentencing guidelines or two Nordic countries or something like that you'd have something more valid, because the other variables would be more similar.
Again, nobody in this thread has been saying three strikes and you're out. 50 strikes I think you can make a case for longer sentencing.
And in the US if this guy got out and did this he probably does it with an assault rifle. So at least we have that going for us.
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The US prison system is just as much a problem as the justice system. They've allowed it to become an exaggerated microcosm of all the USA's societal problems. With the levels of crime and gang activity going on in jail in the USA, any kind of large scale rehabilitation of prisoners is going to be impossible.