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Re:Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mis... by nine_k on Saturday January 11, 2020 @10:46PM (#22024324)
In some places, incarceration rates could be lower only because capital punishment is much more widely used.

Not that US's incarceration rates are sane; to the contrary.

I definitely think that incarceration is actively harmful at fighting crime, because it puts a criminal in an environment of worse criminals, and provides room and board to just hang with them and learn their rules by heart (or be abused, or killed by them). Then the felon is released and has a lot of trouble finding work, so the new criminal knowledge burns to be used.

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Re:Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mis... by Retric on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @09:33AM (#22045017)
You can sanity check those assumptions. Worldwide executions are rare especially compared to US incarceration rates.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/04/death-penalty...

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