People don't change as easily as you think. In fact most people never change and the second they get out the commit crimes again. I agree prisons burn through money but I think it's because it's not managed well. Rehabilitating everyone would cost even more.
Even so, it isn't their fault if they can't change, it's society's fault that they're there in the first place. It is worth the money to keep them alive, if we kill them we are no better than the murderers. The arguement that it works as a deterent to potential criminals is a myth.
Rehab could be made much cheaper per person if it was rolled out nationwide and well budgeted, and it could save a lot of time in prison, reducing prison over-population, and every person it saves is really worth the money. You can't put a price on human life, even a murderer's life.
Fixing society fixes all problems doesn't it? It's also so much easier to blame society than the criminal him/herself. That's why it's the toughest problem to fix. But until we reach utopia I prison seems like a fine solution to me.
"You can't put a price on a human life."
That's a nice quote.
How can rehab be cheaper than prison when it requires one on one patient/doctor time to be guaranteed successful?
How do you define human? And at what point is a person less than human? Killing a 3 year old doesn't seem human to me.
I would say that we are all human beings, and we all deserve human rights, no matter what we have done or how many people we have violated the rights of.
When I talk about rehab being cheaper, I am not suggesting that rehab could be cheaper than prison, but it could be much cheaper than it is, simply because time in rehab would be much less than time behind bars. There is no reason why a murderer could not be "cured" in, say, 2 years, compared to over 20 in prison.
Neither am I suggesting that rehab would be appropriate in all cases, but even the ones who cannot be changed should be treated with pity rather than punishment, which often does little to deter re-offenders.
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People don't change as easily as you think. In fact most people never change and the second they get out the commit crimes again. I agree prisons burn through money but I think it's because it's not managed well. Rehabilitating everyone would cost even more.
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Even so, it isn't their fault if they can't change, it's society's fault that they're there in the first place. It is worth the money to keep them alive, if we kill them we are no better than the murderers. The arguement that it works as a deterent to potential criminals is a myth.
Rehab could be made much cheaper per person if it was rolled out nationwide and well budgeted, and it could save a lot of time in prison, reducing prison over-population, and every person it saves is really worth the money. You can't put a price on human life, even a murderer's life.
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Fixing society fixes all problems doesn't it? It's also so much easier to blame society than the criminal him/herself. That's why it's the toughest problem to fix. But until we reach utopia I prison seems like a fine solution to me.
"You can't put a price on a human life."
That's a nice quote.
How can rehab be cheaper than prison when it requires one on one patient/doctor time to be guaranteed successful?
How do you define human? And at what point is a person less than human? Killing a 3 year old doesn't seem human to me.
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I would say that we are all human beings, and we all deserve human rights, no matter what we have done or how many people we have violated the rights of.
When I talk about rehab being cheaper, I am not suggesting that rehab could be cheaper than prison, but it could be much cheaper than it is, simply because time in rehab would be much less than time behind bars. There is no reason why a murderer could not be "cured" in, say, 2 years, compared to over 20 in prison.
Neither am I suggesting that rehab would be appropriate in all cases, but even the ones who cannot be changed should be treated with pity rather than punishment, which often does little to deter re-offenders.