Three men arrested in Florida for torturing a turtle and beating the disabled veteran who tried to stop them.

If you think Prison is going to rehabilitate them.. LOL. We don't have a method of Rehabilitation on earth we only have a method of unhuman torture that after people experience it decide it's soo fucking brutal they don't want to go there again. I know most people agree with this but most people agreed with racking other humans in the 1200's now you think it's barbaric.. Hopefully we abandon this medieval practice of human imprisonment.

You're an idiot. And at this point I think you're just trying to get upvotes by tapping into the rehabilitation upvote chain that is posted in every single thread to do with the penal system but this is something else.

Prison first and foremost is to protect society from offenders, anything else is completely secondary. Even those who are massively pro-rehabilitation and advocate the Norway prison style (which I believe is optimal) wouldn't be as fucking stupid as to say that we shouldn't ever imprison anybody ever, especially during the rehabilitation process where they must still be a risk. It just makes no sense in society where crimes do happen and certain people pose a risk to society and must be separated until they no longer pose a threat.

Genuinely the dumbest thing I've heard all day, the condescending 'LOL.' is just the icing on the cake of somebody who believes in such a ridiculously idealistic notion that we should 'abandon' imprisoning people who are a risk to society.

we only have a method of unhuman torture that after people experience it decide it's soo fucking brutal they don't want to go there again.

FYI, the 'soo fucking brutal' prison system which people don't want to return to holds very little weight in most serious academic circles. Recidivism or lack of it has little to do with sentencing or time spent in prison, as to why rehabilitation is so important because a custodial sentence just isn't a big enough deterrent to stop people re-offending. And it's inhumane, not 'unhuman'.

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