Rehabilitation or Retribution, Our criminal justice system. Options

[MissHygienic]

Which one should we focus on more in our criminal justice system? Basically, which one would serve as a satisfactory/fitting punishment for prisoners?

[NoSex]

How about you go to Norway, then?

With assholes like you, why would I ever want to leave?

You have to understand there are consequences to having a prison system like Norway. Norway has some of the highest taxes in the world. I don't think that America will be too excited about higher taxes because you want to make sure the guy who just killed a cop has a nice furniture in his hotel suite.

Their high taxes are largely due to a myriad of social programs, most of which are not directed, nor intended, for criminals. Secondly, their criminals probably build and sell nicer furniture than they sit on. Lastly, as I had said before, obviously it is an issue of larger social change. I thought I made that quite clear. Having said that: straw man f**king argument.

Maybe, at this point, we just need a thread on socialism, cause, this is becoming increasingly divergent.

That and even if some how Americans became more willing to accept higher taxes, no politician is going to say "I'm going to raise taxes to help rehabilitate criminals" in their platform. The same applies to the poverty rate. The poverty limit is some # (I forget the exact amount), when living right above the poverty limit is still pretty shit poor. The # needs to be adjusted, but no politician wants to have poverty shoot up while they were in office.

Well, politicians suck, not much unlike America itself. Not to mention, if I were to make a formal proposal, it would eliminate over half of our prison population - that's a lot of extra money, don't you think? Enough to actually do something, at least. In either case, that's neither here nor f**king anywhere else.

[kryogenix]

With assholes like you, why would I ever want to leave?
Their high taxes are largely due to a myriad of social programs, most of which are not directed, nor intended, for criminals. Secondly, their criminals probably build and sell nicer furniture than they sit on. Lastly, as I had said before, obviously it is an issue of larger social change. I thought I made that quite clear. Having said that: straw man f**king argument.

Go straw man yourself. Why should we try to be Norway? We aren't Norway and we don't want to be Norway.

You want change? Get off your ass and stop whining on the internet.





Start your own multi million dollar business and buy your politicians like the rest of us.