[threatofrain]

> Where is the restitution to the aggrieved party? The assaulted, the robbed, the beaten, the raped? You pay for what you do, and if your enterprise is criminal, you pay in time behind bars. Personal responsibility. Why would anyone want to hire a wife-beater?

Criminal law is about wrongs against the state. In regards to payment for restitution, how is the state being restored by somebody rotting in jail?

What sort of payment is this that the state may end up even poorer than before? In fact, if serving in prison is payment, then I'd say it's the state that's paying for the prison and all the harms which follow.

If the state should find itself awfully harmed from its own criminal justice policy, from where shall the state seek remedy?

[sokoloff]

Criminals commit very few crimes against the public while incarcerated.