(January 17, 2014 at 9:46 pm)Chad32 Wrote: No one should be imprisoned for non violent crimes.I disagree completely with that statement, perhaps more so than the others, and I hope that after re-thinking it you can see why.
Non-violent crimes does not mean "victimless" crimes. If you had said that, I would have probably agreed with you. People shouldn't get jail sentences for taking drugs for instance.
However there are plenty of examples of non-violent crimes which deserve proper punishment in a jail. Fraud (how else should Bernie Madoff be punished?), burglary, even plotting to commit a violent crime are all examples of this.