Most of a nation on probation?

Sampo Syreeni decoy at iki.fi
Wed Jul 4 17:59:45 PDT 2001


On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Eric Cordian wrote:

>If everyone refused plea bargaining, and refused parole, the number of
>people who could be prosecuted and jailed would be a small fraction of
>those who are "in the system" today.

I think the relative cost of parole vs. completing the sentence is the
pertinent question -- the parole system can be a wonderful thing, as Sandy
says, but the government should never be able to reduce costs by using it.
There should be paroles, but their cost should somehow be forced to the same
level as serving the time behind bars. After that the only reason to let
someone out would be the balance between the prospect of rehabilitation vs.
risk taken.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy at iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front





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