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To: PapaNew
Why do you think "punishment" is the only valid or effective consequence available for things like illegal or dangerous driving or rule-breaking children?

I would be glad to hear the alternatives you think would be more effective.

Do you think our current prison system is effective?

To an extent. Not as much as it could be.

Do you think it's forward-looking, self-sustaining, and is a "Correction Dept" as advertised?

Grandiose and political naming are meaningless to me.

For reckless endangerment, for example, corrective action could include banishment from driving altogether

That would be a punishment.

181 posted on 05/03/2014 5:28:13 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
For reckless endangerment, for example, corrective action could include banishment from driving altogether

That would be a punishment.

You miss my point. I would implement that as primarily a PROTECTIVE measure for other drivers. The verificalbe rehab part would be a CORRECTIVE meansure. BOTH are forward-looking.

I would be glad to hear the alternatives you think would be more effective.

See above.

Grandiose and political naming are meaningless to me.

Protecting society, making prisoners productive to pay their way, and having convicts restore financially what they have harmed along with verifiable rehabilitation are certainly NOT meaningless, political B.S. These are very important, substantive alternatives to the go-nowhere "punishment" policies of today's backward, ineffective, and harmful prison systems.

As far as I'm concerned your being stuck on the unacceptable status quo ignores a lot of better alternatives.

183 posted on 05/03/2014 6:06:43 PM PDT by PapaNew
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