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<blockquote data-quote="jamrobmic" data-source="post: 91309" data-attributes="member: 1412"><p>There's the problem. We all pay for it every time someone doesn't "learn the lesson" society is trying to teach by locking them up. Not only with tax dollars going to fund their upkeep in prison (and build more prisons), but also in pain and suffering for the damage they do when they get out. And most will get out; most sentences aren't all that long, relatively speaking. </p><p></p><p>If the reasons why someone can't or won't change the behavior that landed them in prison aren't addressed, they probably will keep re offending. Yes, we can keep locking them up every time they commit another crime (using more of our tax dollars again), but then we're forced to deal with the damage they do in the meantime. Over and over again. We're shutting the barn door after the horse has run off. Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to make an effort to address the reasons they landed there in the first place? But we don't address those problems because we (as a society) don't think people who break the law deserve that kind of help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jamrobmic, post: 91309, member: 1412"] There's the problem. We all pay for it every time someone doesn't "learn the lesson" society is trying to teach by locking them up. Not only with tax dollars going to fund their upkeep in prison (and build more prisons), but also in pain and suffering for the damage they do when they get out. And most will get out; most sentences aren't all that long, relatively speaking. If the reasons why someone can't or won't change the behavior that landed them in prison aren't addressed, they probably will keep re offending. Yes, we can keep locking them up every time they commit another crime (using more of our tax dollars again), but then we're forced to deal with the damage they do in the meantime. Over and over again. We're shutting the barn door after the horse has run off. Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to make an effort to address the reasons they landed there in the first place? But we don't address those problems because we (as a society) don't think people who break the law deserve that kind of help. [/QUOTE]
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