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minus-squareBrotherL0v3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoI would guess the logic behind going harder on repeat offenders is that they’ve already been punished once and didn’t stop breaking the law, so we should punish them harder this time. Not sure that’s super effective reasoning, but w/e.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-27 months agoDespite common opinion, courts consider prison “rehabilitative incarceration.”
I would guess the logic behind going harder on repeat offenders is that they’ve already been punished once and didn’t stop breaking the law, so we should punish them harder this time. Not sure that’s super effective reasoning, but w/e.
Despite common opinion, courts consider prison “rehabilitative incarceration.”