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Re:Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box by adamwong246 on Friday March 07, 2014 @06:04PM (#7363316)
If the person re-commits a crime, then the prison must re-pay the government back. Perhaps we can do away with mandatory sentencing as well! Let the prison decide when a person has paid their debt to society.
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Re:Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box by rblatz on Friday March 07, 2014 @06:49PM (#7363519)
Then you are going to get a lot of "accidental" prison deaths. Because the prisons won't house an inmate that they don't think they can make money off of.
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Re:Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box by adamwong246 on Friday March 07, 2014 @06:54PM (#7363537)
Prisons could choose which inmates they take in. That is, prisons wouldn't be forced to house inmates who they don't believe have rehabilitation potential.
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Re:Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box by garrettgrimsley on Friday March 07, 2014 @08:41PM (#7363885)
Yes, I can't see that being abused.
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