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Re:Indonesia bans forced religious attire in schools by alsetmusic on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:07PM (#26052284)
> Some form of prison is necessary, and it serves three purposes: > - rehabilitation

This is decidedly not true in the US where prison is about retribution.

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Re:Indonesia bans forced religious attire in schools by hntrader on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:53PM (#26052493)
I was making a normative statement, not a descriptive one (although I didn't communicate that effectively).

Those are the three valid purposes that prison should serve, whether or not that happens to be true for a specific instance of a prison system in a specific country.

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