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My constitution gets weaker as the years go by. I had to stop reading after the description of solitary confinement brought on a panic attack.
Maybe it's not your constitution weakening, but your empathy strengthening? If more people felt injustices like this in their gut, the world would be a much better place.
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Well, you could argue that all of North Korea is functionally an open air prison. If you don’t get to live in a city because you lack the permit, is a rural Chinese citizen jailed in their home town? If you don’t get to do stuff like drive without your male guardian present, is that Saudi woman watched over by a prison guard? If you’re a German kid and you’re just tracked into trade school, did society put you to wor…
No. You're trying to use whataboutism to make the crazy incarceration rates in the US seem less bad. Don't do that.
> "Caging me for a decade is not rehabilitating. I may be making excuses for myself, though there is a lesson that could have been learned with the same amount of value for justice if the sentence was 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, even 6 years." From the article at: https://forklog.media/ex-convicted-hacker-ghostexodus-severi... I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessiv…
You are in Asia right? Let’s see China - disappeared for comparing xi jing ping the dictator to Winnie the Pooh, or mention Hong Kong or Taiwan in a postiive light on wechat Singapore - 2 years in jail for selling gum, death penalty for Having drugs Vietnam - 34 years for drug trafficking
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170420003622/http://thediploma...
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You are in Asia right? Let’s see China - disappeared for comparing xi jing ping the dictator to Winnie the Pooh, or mention Hong Kong or Taiwan in a postiive light on wechat Singapore - 2 years in jail for selling gum, death penalty for Having drugs Vietnam - 34 years for drug trafficking
If the Chinese government wants to punish a citizen, they don't need to send you to prison: They can track or tap your phone. They know when you check into a hotel and will send the police over to search your belongings.
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>rehabilitate prisoners Yes that's what i mean with do/learn, give them the tools so they can live a good and legal life after prison. >to an appropriate extent, punish I think that's already included in the package..when they take away your freedom.
What do you do when someone refuses to be rehabilitated? There is real evil in the world and people who are happy to break the rules of society again and again and again.
Some guy with pointy ears said once:
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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Has it really changed that much in 10 years, or is part of it just the sense of alienation everyone experiences getting out of jail after a long time? I mean, 10 years ago people lamented over the exact same thing; and before that, and before the before. I can't prove it of course, but I'd bet you might feel that "human interaction" is not quite what you remember it to be if you had only just spent 10 years behind th…
>has it really changed that much in 10 years I'm inclined to follow Peter Thiels view here. We were promised flying cars and got 140 (now more) characters on Twitter. Tech has changed. But everything else is so much the same it almost hurts.
This is entirely due to tech financiers like Peter Thiel investing in software to the exclusion of other forms of technology. He could be funding flying cars in the way that Elon Musk is funding space travel.
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10 years of prison time for a single non-violent crime is extremely rare in America. What can happen in certain states, is that repeat offenders are hit with escalating prison terms each time they are convicted (the classic example are the three-strikes-your-out laws), whereby someone can be sentenced to a life term. In those cases, sentences don't translate to actual prison terms since non-violent offenders are rout…
I think it is fair to say that whether for violent crimes or non-violent crimes, sentencing in the US is considerably harsher than in many other countries. I've rarely seen a prison term issued by a US court which I have not found to be excessive relative to my experience with sentences in Germany. The statistic of the total number of prisoners in the US per capita is well-known and gives us a strong indication that…
It's not as if these laws arise in a vacuum.
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> He wasn't charged with that It was, in fact, pay of the allegations of the crimes he was charged with, and it explicitly was a sentencing factor. He wasn't charged with, say, attempted murder or conspiracy to commit murder for the alleged murder-for-hire scheme, though.
Right, he wasn't charged with it. As I said. It was used as an aggravation factor (if that's the right word) at sentencing, that's true. But he wasn't charged with it.
Does that really sound logical to you?