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Do "Three Strikes Sentencing" laws and other "GET TOUGH" approaches really work?

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  1. i used to work at a jail... i can not tell you the amount of people that come in time after time after time on the same charges as they did before. they are repeat offenders and i believe that it works in some cases and not in others. some people will never learn and only know how to survive in a criminal aspect therefor continue to commit crimes just to "function." i agree with the multi bill because not many crimes come with a severe punishment however when they multi bill them the punishment increases. i am not saying that it needs to happen all the time but seriously jails and prisions are overcrowded already and they offer 3 for 1 or even 2 for 1 when in fact the offender should serve the whole sentence.


  2. No they don't.  

    Crime is generally engaged in by two kinds of people:  The desperate, and the stupid.  Threat of punishment is no great deterrent to either sort.

    Also, I think the prison system as it currently stands, effectively operates as a criminal university.  Small time offenders go there, and come out schooled to become serious criminals.  The more people you cram into them, the worse this situation becomes.  

    I think a system based on panoptics and solitary confinement, though initially more expensive, would be far more effective, at least where the prisons themselves are concerned.

  3. No, the reason being is that not enough resources are available to at least give people fighting a chance at rehabilitation. Take for instance in Oregon, starting with the early 90's, all inmate rehabilitation programs were cut or eliminated. At some point, it becomes difficult to let people out of jail or prison when they have no skills, no job or no ability to develop a social network.

  4. For the criminals that don't think, it doesn't matter. They will think they will never get caught and keep doing whatever it is they do, repeat.

       Seems that those that have education are not tempted as much to 'pettiefy' their life with crimes and misdemeanors. I will attest, though, that the ones that were sentenced to severe terms their third time gives me great pleasure in knowing that crime does not happen around my dwelling from the same individual, again.

       The greater society may not even know about how crime and it's individuals around me have been...but, personally, I feel better that the person has been removed to prison...

  5. Define 'work'.  If by work you mean deter people from committing crimes, the answer is no, but if by work you mean prevent crimes, the answer is yes.

    People convicted of two felonies are warned that the next one carries a life sentence where three strikes laws exist.  If they bother to commit another felony, knowing they forsake their freedom for it, then what makes you think that not giving them a life sentence will prevent them committing further crimes?

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