Crime
On Crime and Punishment
Some thoughts on extreme views on crime and punishment
Revisiting some of my older. unpublished on Medium work as I have an unexpected morning off. Here is an old writing on crime and punishment.
I’ve written several times on my WordPress blog about the concept of prison and rehabilitation. I wrote about it in the context of Michael Vick, John Hinckley, and others.
I am a believer in the idea that we have to believe in rehabilitation. We have to be able to forgive people and give them a second chance in life. There are very few crimes I would consider unforgivable.
The justice system is flawed and sometimes corrupt as is any system that is run by humans(so, all of them). The number of people who have been wrongly convicted is way too high for me to ever support the death penalty again. Many people disagree with me.
Every time there is a news article about someone being released from prison there is an outcry from the public.
How could we possibly let this person out of prison? They can’t possibly be rehabilitated!
They should rot in prison!
They should have been executed!
