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Originally Posted by blazey
See, if they were adults when they commited the crime I might agree, but the fact that they are young makes me think otherwise. Maybe its the fact that people keep saying to me 'when you are older you will see' and 'you'll learn one day'. I think they will see one day that what they did as teenagers was wrong, and they will have had plenty of time to dwell on that.
Why bother with prisons if we aren't willing to make room for improvement for the prisoners? Surely it would just be wasting money if they weren't ever going to be released?
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They were old enough to know that what they were doing was terribly, terribly wrong, so they are old enough to take the consequences. And as for prisons, as far as I'm concerned, they're for punishment, as well as rehabilitation.