Prison Reform

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(11-05-2019, 05:44 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Ok, that makes sense. Well, the acronym, not necessarily the system. There really should be an assessment on these sorts of things like a point system. "Domestic violence accusation: 5 points towards remand; Has a passport: 2 points towards remand; First offender: -5 points towards remand" or something like that. I'm sure studies could be done on correlating factors for people that are more or less likely to commit crimes or skip town when released.

Doesn't sound bad, so long as catching someone committing the violent crime happening always automatically means remanding.

I'm fine with any kind of point system like that so long as we don't have to pretend that while people like Dylan Roof hadn't been convicted and found guilty yet by a jury when he was first arrested, that he was nowhere near innocent.

Never understood why there wasn't a normal death penalty, and then a fast-tracked death penalty for people who obviously did that shit with hundreds of witnesses and/or on camera. It took Roof 7 months just to get his initial sentencing. SEVEN MONTHS. He was sentenced to Federal execution nearly 2 years and 10 months ago and it'll be years or decades until it's finally done.

(Sorry, a bit of a tangent there, but figured the Prison Reform thread would be a good place for it at least.)