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Belgian prisons are also overcrowded and justice system understaffed so that prosecuting small one-time offenses is definitely not a priority.

We don't try to rehabilitate people in US prisons, or treat them like humans with problems.

The graveyards of prisons and insane asylums were regularly plundered, but even the bodies obtained in this manner were often not sufficient.

We have plenty of for profit prisons in the US, and we have had judges go to jail for accepting bribes from these prisons to send more people to jail.

It merely became only the right of corporations and the state via prisons.

Think about how much goes into maintaining police, bounty hunters, debt collection services, reposession services, prisons.

I do believe I'd be upset in this situation and I could end up sentenced for life in your prisons.

The percentage of individuals incarcerated in private prisons is still a small (but growing) minority (maybe 10% or so, but much higher for juveniles).

Extradite him and let him rot in one of their prisons.

This increases the need for armed police, prisons, etc.

Unfortunately, I really think that the solution isn't more prisons or more programs, it's reforming the way that we sentence and punish people.

- A universal earth-wide bill of rights - No prisons except for really serious crimes.

That people ought to "pay for what they did." Focus on rehabilitation, and make prisons conducive to that end.

We place them in prisons and have them sign a registry as a "sex offender" where that knowledge is made public and they never live it down for the rest of their lives.

But I don't see any indication that she thinks her arguments wouldn't apply to men as well: "Essentially, the case for closing women’s prisons is the same as the case for imprisoning fewer men."

"Hey, at least we murdered them somewhat quickly instead of tormenting them in brutal prisons for the rest of their lives!" isn't much a defense either.

Prisons are big money, especially in the US.