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[quote=Anonymous]There are several separate questions and issues here.

1. Violent individuals:  We need safe streets, we should be able to go about our business, ride trains without being attacked, walk at night without being mugged, not have our kids shot when they go to school.  Violent people need to be removed from society, period.  That's not about punishment, that's not about rehabilitation, that's about doing right by society.

2. How should they be punished?  I don't have the answer to that.  Is removing them from society enough of a punishment in and of itself?  I do believe they should have to make restitution to their victims or the surviving family members.  And if that's through prison labor I think that's fair.

3. Can they be rehabilitated?  Should they get a second chance?  That's yet another totally separate question.  I believe in some cases, yes.  In others, no.  But that takes evaluation.

Let's not commingle and conflate all of these and start with the first one, even if we don't have the answers for the other two.[/quote]

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