gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agoAlabama’s Nitrogen Gas Execution Will Be Cruel and Unusual Punishmentwww.jurist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down158file-text
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minus-squareFades@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-210 months agoBy that logic it’s just as inhumane to put someone in prison that doesn’t want to be there, it is simply “not hunane”
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agopretty much any study into justice reform will tell you that’s the case in the majority of cases, yes.
minus-squareJagger2097@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThis is why punitive justice is pointless. We need to rehabilitate criminals, not just warehouse them. Obviously some criminals are harder to rehabilitate and reintroduce into society, but the vast majority of these people are not sociopaths
By that logic it’s just as inhumane to put someone in prison that doesn’t want to be there, it is simply “not hunane”
pretty much any study into justice reform will tell you that’s the case in the majority of cases, yes.
This is why punitive justice is pointless. We need to rehabilitate criminals, not just warehouse them. Obviously some criminals are harder to rehabilitate and reintroduce into society, but the vast majority of these people are not sociopaths