Comment Re:The lesson (Score 1) 329
I agree with you more than I disagree and in a society with a rehabilitative rather than retributive prison system, I would definitely agree. As things are now however, serving time does not demonstrate that a person is safe to society. I do understand your point about a permanent disadvantaged underclass, it's just that we need a prison system that will help reform people rather make them hardened, and to get there, we have to make prison far less about vengeance than it currently is.