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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Without incarceration? I don't think there is a massive anti-incarcerarion argument in the US, to a point. With the current iteration, sure, but other countries do incarceration correctly, where rehabilitation is the focus. But I don't think there is an appropriate option for those crimes (jaywalking withheld lol) that isn't some kind of separation from "polite society". Obviously grey areas exist in some cases; self-defence, crimes of passion, etc where there are mitigating details, but just in general, I wouldn't have any good options for those cut and dry convicted criminals that isn't incarceration of some form. I guess the option would be round the clock services and supervision for redirection and rehabilitation? But that has a whole host of problems and you'd likely need a dozen or so people per convict? As well as housing facilities, and specialized workers for therapy/education, etc, and then it looks a lot like prison, just without the physical walls at that point.

I would agree the US version would not be helpful though, aside from attempting to give society some kind of satisfaction of "justice served".

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I guess the option would be round the clock services and supervision for redirection and rehabilitation? But that has a whole host of problems and you'd likely need a dozen or so people per convict? As well as housing facilities, and specialized workers for therapy/education, etc, and then it looks a lot like prison, just without the physical walls at that point.

    That's still less expensive than building, maintaining, and staffing massive prison systems.

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