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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
all that and you didnt address the first line and main point: THE COST OF KEEPING CRIMINALS IN JAIL FOR LIFE.
no one is debating whether or not criminals should be punished, what you claim is the answer is to put kids in jail for life.... so... what about the cost?
I am already paying juvenile detention fees for your bad ass kid, now I gotta pay to keep him alive till he dies in jail? pay all his medical bills while he lives etc? You think jail is frree?
jailing criminals for life is not the fix or the answer buddy
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Putting kid KILLERS in jail for life, I have no problem with. There's a whole tax debate thing I'm not gonna get into, although I believe I did address it somewhat by offsetting the cost by NOT imprisoning white collar criminals as much and giving them house arrest. Again, I don't have ALL the answers, nor do I pretend to. I have a strong opinion about it though.
Would you want a kid who's killed already to be released after 3 or 5 years, having been rehabilitated and then killing YOUR kid? I wouldn't. If they've killed once, noone can say they're not capable of doing it again. And there's been too many cases of people being proven innocent after the fact for me to believe in the death penalty...although I used to.
For juveniles that committed crimes, especially violent, I like the boot camp idea, but can easily see the point of it getting lost when someone claims they were abused.