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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I think our sentences are WAY too long in the US. They used to be 2 years for most crimes and now we have people locked away for 25+ years. [/quote]

Well the victim’s “sentence” was losing her entire life. Her family will live with this pain way beyond 3.5 years. It’s absurd how we treat people who choose to drink and drive with such kid gloves. Why should they get to go on and live out the rest of their lives as if nothing happened?[/quote]

Long imprisonments won't bring anyone back. [/quote]

Neither will a short imprisonment  :roll: if you don’t want to go to jail don’t break the law. Plus, long sentences may act as deterrent for the next loser who makes a choice to drink and drive.[/quote]

Long sentences clearly don’t deter crime, otherwise we’d have empty jails. [/quote]

It doesn’t deter ALL crime, but it absolutely deters some, if not the most. [/quote]

That's not a position [b][u]any[/u][/b] data supports, including high quality data from countries with much shorter sentences. [/quote]

I am an immigrant from the country where murderers and pedophiles can get 10, 15 years. Do you really believe that once they are free, they are law abiding citizens? Many kill again including child rapists. Just in my home city I know many cases where people committed heinous crimes once they got free from prison. One of the reasons I immigrated to USA is because I got tired of living in a corrupted, high crime, poor country. And now I am being lectured by a  privileged American telling me that murderers would not commit another crime after they murdered someone because “ data doesn’t support it”?   This is too funny.[/quote]

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