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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Build prisons. Hire prison guards. Hire judges and lawyers, expand systems.
Taxes up.
That’s how that works, if we want to fix it. But I guess we’re cool with criminals roaming around and then thinking (hoping) they’ll rehabilitate. There will be stuff that falls through the cracks. So every time you see an article like this and are kinda taken aback at the soft sentence, just pinch / remind yourself, taxes up. Do you want that? Maybe, that’s an individual question I think.
Personally I think we should do it but that’s just me.
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Whenever someone advocates for more prisons I think of the U.S. which has the largest prison population in the world yet still has more crime than us. I'm not saying it wouldn't work because I don't have the experience with the system to say so either way, but the same can be said for most people who decry the justice system as broken.
Lots of crime is due to lack of education and poverty but drunk driving really isn't. It seems to be a crime of hubris. They don't think that they're doing anything wrong. Shaming these people would be a great first step towards curbing it. Make them walk around with a sandwich board saying, "I drove drunk and killed a little girl". If that doesn't change their habits I don't know if anything will, even prison.