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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
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.
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So murderers can't be rehabiliated? I'm not quite sure what you are trying to say.
I think we live in a society where we think prison is the only way of solving things like this, and we're so closed into the box ourselves that nobody bothers to think of alternative methods for class A offenders. Prison allows us to move the problem from our society to a closed one which affects only prisoners only, and once they're there we feel better about our lives again that we never want them back in our lives because we see them as a threat to ourselves. Our fear is what makes us demand longer prison sentences, not the fact that we want to rehabiliate anyone. Just like love makes people like Maxine Carr protect criminals, like hate and greed creates criminals.
All natural emotions create problems, and that includes fear of prisoners being released and reoffending. I thought thats why we had the legal system, for an objective trial free from the natural emotions and compassion.