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Re:Prison Without Punishment by jit_hacker on Saturday October 17, 2015 @10:54PM (#10407057)
There are no absolutes when it comes to criminal punishment. There is always an exception to everything.

That said, I've long thought if you stop treating people like animals, they'll stop acting like it. I've never studied prisons, or psychology, or anything remotely related. But I genuinely believe this philosophy is investigating.

Re:Prison Without Punishment by rdtsc on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:48PM (#10407152)
> There is always an exception to everything.

Unless there is minimum sentencing involved, which became popular in US during War On Drugs. That took a lot of discretion that judges had and turned decisions into absolute black and white type things.

Re:Prison Without Punishment by dethstar on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:11PM (#10407078)
Well there's countries like Norways which make prison look like vacations to people in countries with less resources (except the not going out whenever you please of course)

Foucault argued that the point of prison is to create more crime though.

Re:Prison Without Punishment by rdtsc on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:50PM (#10407154)
> Foucault argued that the point of prison is to create more crime though.

Add profits generated by the prison industrial complex and it actually starts making real economic sense to keep them coming back.

Re:Prison Without Punishment by TeMPOraL on Sunday October 18, 2015 @12:34AM (#10407235)
Then there are countries like Poland where prisons look better than hospitals, at least in terms of food quality and access to entertainment. Complaining about it is a popular pastime here.