> Some people are skittish about the idea of punsihment. But it's abhorrent to our sense of justice that one suffer no consequences after committing a crime.
Consequences could be restoration and responsibility instead of mere punishment.
Still, let's say punishment has a place for some severe crimes where restoration/responsibility isn't possible or for people who will not cooperate.
Imprisonment itself is punitive -- there should be no better time that the entire public should understand fully that the loss of freedom and opportunity and association involved in confinement is no small one, because almost all of us have gotten a small taste of what that's like, and some people have found it difficult even when it's their own homes stocked with their own possessions and comforts.
Can we really justify the degree to which we create further suffering beyond the consequences of imprisonment itself?
And if these consequences aren't actually written into the law -- which specifies imprisonment, but not necessarily isolation, or $.05 per email, or informal violence in prison -- can we really said to be a society based on law or justice?
Consequences could be restoration and responsibility instead of mere punishment.
Still, let's say punishment has a place for some severe crimes where restoration/responsibility isn't possible or for people who will not cooperate.
Imprisonment itself is punitive -- there should be no better time that the entire public should understand fully that the loss of freedom and opportunity and association involved in confinement is no small one, because almost all of us have gotten a small taste of what that's like, and some people have found it difficult even when it's their own homes stocked with their own possessions and comforts.
Can we really justify the degree to which we create further suffering beyond the consequences of imprisonment itself?
And if these consequences aren't actually written into the law -- which specifies imprisonment, but not necessarily isolation, or $.05 per email, or informal violence in prison -- can we really said to be a society based on law or justice?