[bradleyjg]

Three strikes and you’re out isn’t about retribution, it’s about the strong evidence that the specific deterrence and rehabilitation effect of prison will not work on a particular individual.

[p_j_w]

>rehabilitation effect of prison

There is no such effect in the USA. Prisons are 100% not designed to rehabilitate anyone here.

[xtracto]

What do you think of Danny Trejo's rehabilitation [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Trejo#Life_of_crime_and_...

[p_j_w]

One person rehabbing doesn't invalidate the mountains of evidence the other way.

[burnished]

Anyone guilty of wage theft getting hit by that law?

Just saying, in practice its clearly not about jailing menaces to society.

[bradleyjg]

Do you know of anyone that’s been convicted of wage theft, sent to prison, convicted of a new count of wage theft, sent to prison, and convicted of a new count of wage theft

… or did you just want to flog your hobbyhorse regardless of how poor the fit was?

[rurp]

Of course not, their whole point was that nobody gets prosecuted for wage theft despite it being common.

[ashwagary]

>wage theft despite it being common.

Worse than being common, I heard US wage theft eclipses all other theft in the US combined.

[burnished]

That is, funnily enough, precisely the point.