Basically, I don't believe the state should be in the business of exacting revenge on people for breaking the law. But sometimes it is hard to tell a family of a brutal crime that we are an enlightened society that doesn't do that.
So give them options.
But it just seems like we would eventually get situations like the Montagues vs Capulets in major cities.
And eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Edit: I'm not saying no prisons. I'm saying they should be reform-centered.
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