Posted Jun 20, 2011, 6:14 AM
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Uhh sure... we can follow the US example I guess... works well with all those good prisoners in those huge super-prisons... right? Where they can all become better "citizens"... err... I mean... better prisoners... =O
As much as you'd want to like toss them into one of those car fires for all the needless damage and destruction that they did, on the other hand it sounds rather foolish to force one's life to go to waste if and when they show remorse and show that they can mature their way out of this... don't you think?
The bigger worry for me is if we keep them in prison for so long or impose all sorts of conditions such that they feel like an outsider... it only hardens their lack of respect for society, government, and people... in the end we may just see their faces over and over again on the wanted list... and I really hope we can avoid that. It may fit in well with the Conservatives' anti crime and lock-down campaign but as far as I understand that's not the philosophy that the Canadian criminal and justice system generally works on, which is to give these people a second chance to reinvent themselves.
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