(November 27, 2013 at 5:44 am)pocaracas Wrote: Much graver crimes get much milder punishments...
... which is why people feel less afraid committing those graver crimes.
Prisons don't work too well either.
Quote:It's breathtaking hypocrisy because the very prison officers who frisk you just might be trafficking the drugs with which the system is awash. Time and again addict inmates I've spoken to have told me that it's easier to obtain heroin in jail than out.
Contrary to the view of prison as a deterrent and a way of keeping criminals off the streets, almost all enlightened opinion now concurs in the following.
Not only does prison, for the vast majority of those who endure it, not work, either as punishment or as rehabilitation, but there is no escaping the conclusion that it functions as a stimulant to crime, rather than its bromide.
The current chief inspector of prisons for England and Wales recently warned that the latest pupils to enroll in these £30,000 per-annum malefaction academies are being recruited by criminal gangs, and will almost certainly reoffend upon their release - if not before.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15196517
