Re: Incarceration: Rehabiliate and Protect? Or Punish?
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Economic ostracism has always been a devastatingly effective social punishment. Cutting someone off from the benefits of the division of labor has enormous consequences.
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Not only did you just contradict yourself fully by saying first that justice is about making the victim whole and nothing else, but this is an absolutely absurd solution to criminal behavior. Making lawlessness = homelessness helps society how? Really, I would love to hear an explanation.
As for incarceration 'hurting the state and free market' you need to do a little more research. There is a reason why the United States locks down 25% of the people incarcerated *worldwide*. It's because the system is privatized and subsequently became a slave labor racket.
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