Prison System Debate
Commenters debate the purpose of prisons as punishment versus rehabilitation, the inhumane conditions and effects of incarceration, and alternatives like reform or abolition.
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Our prison population seems to disagree with you.
Why's it any worse than being any other kind of person in prison?
It's hard to believe it will harm them more than imprisonment.
Prisoners have probably done something to deserve it?
prison is inhuman punishment. it doesn't stop or correct crime. and in return causes huge social problems.
is this everyone on HN's first time reading that prison is not very good for people? kids get longer sentences for stealing candy bars. the entire prison system is state organized torture and it basically shouldn't exist.
Maybe we use prisons for punishment, not rehabilitation.
"not everybody in jail deserves humane treatment"Maybe this attitude is part of why they're in jail in the first place.
Arguing for extrajudicial punishment in prison for criminals as being good, actually is pretty wild
That's what prison is. Well it's not supposed to be that, but it's sort of ended up that way, if you look at it from a certain perspective. see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17812292. Doesn't seem to be working out very well.