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ovrhere_ t1_jea9tto wrote

CT needs to do a lot more too. Housing, occupation, etc. You can't take someone's life away, brand them a criminal, and then expect them to re-enter society. Our priorities are trash.

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biglou203 t1_jeaxwvx wrote

Take someone’s life away? They chose to do the crime….no?

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ovrhere_ t1_jeaynzu wrote

Does that make them undeserving of rehabilitation and reintroduction into society? There's surely a broader discussion to be had about conditions contributing to acts of crime besides the person arbitrarily choosing to do them, and whether prison is an actual deterrent to crime, but even if we assume all crimes are simply a matter of choice, does that make my first question less pertinent?

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