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Originally Posted by waldedw
Those bums and druggies live a dozen in a shack now, bunk beds, 4 per cell, stack them up like cord wood, if the kill each other oh well less expense to the tax payer.  |
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Originally Posted by elkhunter11
Exactly! Make prison a deterrent. And bring back capital punishment, it's a proven fact that executed criminals don't reoffend.
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More prison space is needed as are mental institutions, because some people cannot ever be rehabilitated or integrated into society. They should be locked up and looked after in a proper facility instead of left on the streets to die or for the general public to look after.
Unfortunately it's not just bums and druggies. Plenty of other hardcore prolific offenders that rape, assault, kill, steal, molest............... that are in and back out in short order, often not even remanded in custody. Many of the addicts/criminals are in and out so quickly that the system doesn't even have a chance to try out any sort of rehabilitation.
The revolving door needs to stop, lawmakers/judges/defense lawyers need to steer far away from the current path that is constantly saying "they weren't responsible for their actions". B.S. they were responsible, they did it and nobody else did hence there should be real consequences.
No more Gladue principles for prolific dangerous offenders either, that excuse is getting old too and it has encouraged the system to become complacent and lazy. It has done absolutely nothing to curtail the number of crimes committed by indigenous people. If nothing else it's caused a significant increase in the number of prolific indigenous criminals, they have no reason to respect or fear the law anymore.
Drug traffickers here should receive the same treatment that they do in Singapore. Right on the entry Visa is stamped "Warning, Death for Drug Traffickers Under Singapore Law", I was okay with that. That should go for the lying pharmaceutical companies executives, over-prescribing physicians or criminal pharmacists too.