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Re:A Crime Doesn't Make a Child an Adult by soulbadguy on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:09AM (#48486454)
> Every year that a criminal is incarcerated is a year that they CANNOT kill an innocent citizen, rob a home or store, desecrate or vandalize the community, shoot up fentanyl in the streets, or do any number of things.

Why stop at criminal, this also true for non-criminal; Let's just jail everyone, then we will all be safer.

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Re:A Crime Doesn't Make a Child an Adult by dani__german on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:49PM (#48593963)
CECOT is an excellent example of why common sense, and necessarily heavy handed policing is a requirement for a society to not be a prison itself. If you remove the prison, the prisoners just move into the country and make it a prison too. Except we all get to live next to them.
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