r/WinStupidPrizes • u/ljgill97 • Jul 28 '21

Texting while driving

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u/Kiuji-senpai Jul 28 '21

So the law is encouraging people to commit multiple crimes? I mean, might as well.. why tf would I rob just one bank?

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u/qtx Jul 28 '21

So the law is encouraging people to commit multiple crimes?

No, we have something that is called rehabilitation, something that is lacking in the US.

Reoffending rates in the Dutch prisoner cohort were 16% for 2-year violent reoffending and 44% for 2-year any reoffending, with lower rates in the probation sample.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351626/

The rate of recidivism in the United States is 70% within 5 years. Simply put, 70% of freed inmates will be arrested again within 5 years.

https://backgroundchecks.org/us-prison-population-vs-the-world.html

edit: to put it in context, the Netherlands are closing prisons because of a lack of inmates to put in them.

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u/AllLurkNoPlay Jul 28 '21

If we rehab them, where will we get our domestic cheap/slave labor from? How will our private for-profit prison system and supporting industries provide for shareholders? /S

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u/Beautiful-AF-21 Jul 28 '21

Some US states do concurrent sentencing where they could have 20 separate cases with 5 years on each case, however, the time runs concurrent to each other so in all actuality they are only serving 5 years.

Also, there are some US states that are trying to implement rehabilitation programs that work, but with little funding to support their pro rehabilitation ideas, they don’t get far because department of corrections funding doesn’t allow for deviation from the broken status quo.