opebo
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« on: July 15, 2011, 04:11:09 PM » |
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Perhaps. The important lesson here is to make prison a more pleasant place - provide excellent living and learning facilities, and extremely high levels of security to make sure the violence and rape that is a normal part of prison life doesn't happen. In other words spend many times the current budget, while at the same time greatly reducing the prison population by legalizing drugs, prostitution, etc.
If we spent a LOT more on prisons, and had a prison population about 1/3 what it is now, I think we could create salubrious, livable conditions which would make mistaken conviction less of an injustice than it is now. The main reason unjust convictions are so horrible is they often lead to the death of the victim, through prison-murder, hiv infection from rape, etc.
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