Fixed the flag - guess I was feeling a touch lazy the day that I created this account, sorry. I'm from Denmark =)
That is even worse than I imagined - I knew it was more about punishment than rehabillitation, but to try to keep them inside just to maintain a steady labour force, that's a horrible agenda to have. You're right, that approaches slavery a bit too much. And for those who gets out, without help to restart their lives, most will just return to a life of crime, sending them right back to prison again. That's a vicious cycle.
I hope someday that the Americans will demand a change to that system. Being a 'criminal' means you've made some really bad life choices, for which you should pay, but we owe it to each other to try to help them live in accordance with society's rules again afterwards. Dehumanization is the father of all of humanity's worst crimes.
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@Hinoron
Fixed the flag - guess I was feeling a touch lazy the day that I created this account, sorry. I'm from Denmark =)
That is even worse than I imagined - I knew it was more about punishment than rehabillitation, but to try to keep them inside just to maintain a steady labour force, that's a horrible agenda to have. You're right, that approaches slavery a bit too much. And for those who gets out, without help to restart their lives, most will just return to a life of crime, sending them right back to prison again. That's a vicious cycle.
I hope someday that the Americans will demand a change to that system. Being a 'criminal' means you've made some really bad life choices, for which you should pay, but we owe it to each other to try to help them live in accordance with society's rules again afterwards. Dehumanization is the father of all of humanity's worst crimes.