One method of crime prevention was you had to look your community in the face when you got out of jail.

The usual response is that the criminals get a state funded new life, whereas the victims get put right back to where they were.

A couple have their house burnt to the ground. OK, their fault they don't have insurance. So they have to scrape by whilst the arsonist gets removed so somewhere else in case it's too nasty having to see the people who'se lives were wrecked. Given a job? Better in case he get's itchy fingers again. Oh, and a house, etc etc.

I believe more should be spent on the victim's support.

The fact that so many crimes occur in prison is that there are a (we hope) a significant concentration of violent people. Yes you can kill with a toothbrush, and in prisons I imagine some do. Have each inmate with two guards in case they try something?

Part of prison should be that they can see what a world with criminals in would be like. Rather like one person's description of heaven and hell:

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Basically both were people sitting at a meal table with very long cutlery. In haeven people worked together and fed each other (i.e. a community) in hell people were so selfish they just sat there and starved rather than help their fellows.


Unduely protecting prisoners is to take responsibility out of prisoner's lives. Sure, the guilty can be punished, and if they can not be trusted to not kill their fellow prisoners I don't think they are ready for release - no one will be there next time they can't control their temper.

For the ones that repeatedly fail to reform into something that society can accept there should be colony islands to place them on if the death penalty is so repugnant (I never understand why killing 100 innocents by failing to act is worse than killing 1 by acting).