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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's wrong with putting the mentally ill in prison permanently especially if they are violent. [/quote]

Because throwing people away does nothing to solve the underlying issues that lead to crime. You want to decrease crime, you go to the source and deal with it before crime happens. Jail has not actually been shown to be a deterrent, and only comes into play after something bad has already happened. Personally, I'd prefer more resources going towards preventing me from becoming someone's victim than toward punishing them after I do. [/quote]

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If there are actually bonafide examples of success that can be replicated, great, let's do that.  But unfortunately there seem to be a lot more of these programs that don't seem to have shown much of anything in terms of results.  DC has thrown tons of money at these kinds of things with "violence interruptors" and others, and it only seems to degenerate into a jobs program that accomplishes nothing at best, or outright grift and corruption at worst.[/quote]

+1 Because that level of mental illness is not curable or fixable. He should have been incarcerated or hospitalized for life. [/quote]

Why in earth should taxpayers be on the hook to care for scumbags for life? Why are these “mentally ill” criminals always so careful to only attack smaller/weaker victims and also have the wherewithal to try to get away with it? If they are so crazy, so “gone” that you want to hook them up with taxpayer funded care for life, why do they never do anything really crazy like attack a 6’3 police officer? Ridiculous. Bullets or rope are super cheap. [/quote]

A different answer would be to have them be responsible for their own upkeep rather than at expense of taxpayers.  They should work, like the rest of us, whether growing crops and preparing food to feed themselves, the maintenance and upkeep of the facility, plus generating revenue to cover the costs of the prison.  The rest of us have to pay our own way, so there's no credible argument that it's somehow cruel and unusal.[/quote]

That’s called slavery you idiot. [/quote]

DP. OK, then provide the bare bare minimum. Gruel and a roof over their heads. If they want things like beds or nicer food, they can work and earn money to pay for them. [/quote]

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