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Re:After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to thi... by rswail on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:38AM (#23476864)
The appropriate extent of punishment is that you are not allowed your freedom. You are restrained from engaging in society.

However, currently, in the US, prisoners are a) primarily incarcerated for non-violent crime, b) used as indentured servants with their labor sold without freedom to withdraw their labor, c) kept in prison beyond reasonable and appropriate sentences to provide the private and public purse of people's taxes paying the prison complex and their labor for profit.

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Re:After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to thi... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:14AM (#23477214)
> prisoners are a) primarily incarcerated for non-violent crime

You need to be careful about the difference between "of people sentenced to prison, how many were sentenced for a nonviolent crime?" and "of people currently in prison, how many are serving a sentence for a nonviolent crime?".

Only the first question will tell you that prisoners are primarily incarcerated for nonviolent crime. This is a result of sentences for nonviolent crimes being much lighter than sentences for violent crimes.

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