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A comment on The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California Has Quietly Plummeted. Parent comment

Re:The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California H... by ryandrake on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:07PM (#18008980)
Do we really need to throw shoplifting kids into prison, which will only serve as a training school for worse crime? Stores have insurance for this kind of loss.
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Re:The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California H... by jjnoakes on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:19PM (#18009070)
Why are the only two options "do nothing" and "throw them in prison"? Shouldn't there be a middle ground here?
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Re:The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California H... by logfromblammo on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:09PM (#18009546)
Return or replace the stolen items as restitution. Pay the value of the stolen items as punishment. And since we want poor kids to get the same lesson as rich kids, make them work the value of their punishment off with a real job, like graffiti removal or trash pickup or municipal grounds-keeping or something.
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Re:The Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention in California H... by stephengillie on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:19PM (#18009064)
Sliding down the slope means replacing insurance with government, and turning this into a type of basic income. Let people take what they want from the store, and pay the store back with taxes.
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