Here's an honestly put question looking for opinions/takes:
Should all criminals incarcerated individuals be allowed to vote? Incarceration for serious crimes allows the state to deprive an individual of nearly all of their rights. Why is the forfeiture of freedom of action more "acceptable" than the forfeiture of participation in electoral politics?
The important part is that the state cannot be incentivized in any way to incarcerate people. By disenfranchising criminals the state is incentivized to make those that disagree with them criminals. Incarceration, if used at all must be a burden on the state, and therefore a last resort. Disenfranchising criminals is essentially giving the state the opportunity to pay to eliminate the right to vote. Given how tight elections can be this can be disastrous.
Incarceration is bad across the board. I can’t of any arguments for keeping incarceration around but allowing inmates to vote that isn’t purely political or practical
There's an argument to be made that reeducation, therapy, and medicine and the lack thereof are the main causes of "dangerous" people.
A refocus of prisons into rehabilitation centers for people that offer all these to the patients would be the way to handle it.
I can't think of a good reason to just throw someone in a violent hole and feed them slop for 20 years and then boot them on the street thinking it'll somehow make them a better person lmao
Otherwise, if they're just fucking high ranking fascists or something equally heinous, I don't see the point of keeping them around in general.
There's some definitional and intentional differences involved, but yeah it wouldn't like be the thing you want to end up at but it's better than the "I will never have a future again" situation that is prisons
Here's an honestly put question looking for opinions/takes:
Should all
criminalsincarcerated individuals be allowed to vote? Incarceration for serious crimes allows the state to deprive an individual of nearly all of their rights. Why is the forfeiture of freedom of action more "acceptable" than the forfeiture of participation in electoral politics?EDIT: I corrected some things.
The important part is that the state cannot be incentivized in any way to incarcerate people. By disenfranchising criminals the state is incentivized to make those that disagree with them criminals. Incarceration, if used at all must be a burden on the state, and therefore a last resort. Disenfranchising criminals is essentially giving the state the opportunity to pay to eliminate the right to vote. Given how tight elections can be this can be disastrous.
Incarceration is bad across the board. I can’t of any arguments for keeping incarceration around but allowing inmates to vote that isn’t purely political or practical
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There's an argument to be made that reeducation, therapy, and medicine and the lack thereof are the main causes of "dangerous" people.
A refocus of prisons into rehabilitation centers for people that offer all these to the patients would be the way to handle it.
I can't think of a good reason to just throw someone in a violent hole and feed them slop for 20 years and then boot them on the street thinking it'll somehow make them a better person lmao
Otherwise, if they're just fucking high ranking fascists or something equally heinous, I don't see the point of keeping them around in general.
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There's some definitional and intentional differences involved, but yeah it wouldn't like be the thing you want to end up at but it's better than the "I will never have a future again" situation that is prisons
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