Prison as punishment

[mlmooney89]

Presuming there's proof it was a complete accident I think a more suitable punishment would be for him to be legally banned from using cellphones for 10 years instead.

Lol. Or some other idea that's better.

But basically the problem is he shouldn't be using cellphones while driving. That's what caused the accident. Many people do use cellphones when driving and it doesn't always cause an accident but it can... and it this case it did. No one should be using cellphones while driving.

Now, I think the solution would be whatever stopped him from using cellphones while driving so it can never happen again... but if the guy is allowed to use cellphones how are they going to stop him from sneaking them into a car?

In fact, how could the government stop him from buying a cellphone if he wanted to?

In fact... what about a tag? Can the government give him a tag and track him in such a way to detect him to make sure he doesn't use cellphones otherwise further action will be taken? How about no privacy for 10 years instead of no privacy + prison?

I feel really ignorant on this matter lol. I have no idea what would be suitable.

But I think there's only one purpose for prisons really: Mitigating suffering.

I mean, you could say that there's also rehabilitation and detainment.... but ultimately they're just ways to mitigate suffering.

Punishment for its own sake because the wrongdoers 'deserve it' even on occasions when that doesn't mitigate suffering? Nah, that really is stupid and fruitless.

The cell phone didn't kill someone... the multi ton metal object moving and hitting something did. It would make more sense to take away their right to operate such machine.