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by speeder 4086 days ago
Depends on the country maybe? Here in Brazil no one believes criminals can be fixed, here we want them away, locked up or dead.
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sickpig 4086 days ago
They should change name from correctional facilities to something else then.

Joking aside, I think that using prisons just for isolation is a waste of tax payer money.

Just think about at the case at hand, we are wasting the money needed to keep this guy in jail for another 8 decades with no actual reasons.

edit: fix grammar

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speeder 4086 days ago
Where, here in Brasil they are not called Correctional Facility!

In fact the only place where I saw "Correctional Facility" was in US-movies and series, I thought it was some fictional name or something like that.

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mod 4086 days ago
What's the alternative, in your mind?
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caf 4086 days ago
It's not a matter of belief, it is a matter of demonstrable fact that some criminals are capable of completely reforming. To deny this is simply to deny reality.

(It is also clearly apparent that some criminals are unreformable - telling the difference a priori remains the hard part).

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