HB 21-20: Breakout Act (Final Vote)

[Dr. MB]

Just gonna repost what I said in the senate thread.

Germany and Austria use this system and I think Atlasia should adopt it too. The natural desire for people is to be free and they shouldn't be punished beyond their already-given sentence for expressing this desire.

It's not a free pass: damage to the prison building which will almost inevitably occur can be put on the prisoners to pay for, and if they caught they will be brought back to serve our their sentence of course. But this is a good step toward greater criminal justice reform here in Atlasia.

Germany for reference isn't even in the top 10 countries for attempted escapes in Europe. Neither is Austria. The honor of number 1 goes to Finland - where, mind you, escape is illegal.

So there's no evidence that this would lead to higher escape rates.

[Dr. MB]

I also don't like the bold part in this section 'No additional penalty may be imposed for successful or attempted escape from an Atlasian federal or military prison, provided no human being is intentionally physically harmed during the attempt, with the following exceptions''

Surely this means hypothetically if I was in prison I could use a fellow prisoner, guard or visitor as a hostage to escape. Equally I could run someone over in a van trying to escape, and then not even be prosecuted for manslaughter.

Good points. I'd support an amendment to fix that.