LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Ideal Britain wrote:
Some prisons do rehabilitate.
Look at Norway or Sweden.
I would put them in jail and give them mental healthcare
If you jail them now, in countries like Canada or the USA, it doesn't matter how much mental healthcare you give them. The memories of getting raped and beaten in jail are going to haunt them the rest of their lives in ways no therapy could hope to overcome.
You dream of a hypothetical world where Canadian and American prisons could be as humane as Norway's? Great, when you get there, you let me know. In the meantime, use prison only on those whose need to be made examples of to strike fear into the hearts of criminals outweigh any value in "rehabilitating" them.
And for a moment there I thought you were agreeing with my reasonable schedule for dealing with animal abusers -- but no, it's the same fear and punishment, not rehabilitation, that you're always pushing.
You also make the baseless assumption that all prisons are supermaxes where the worst of the worst are kept. They do actually differentiate between types of crimes and put people into different levels of security accordingly.