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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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THEN IT STILL STANDS
that a person in prison is a person who is unable to commit offenses to the public. So the LONGER they are in prison, the longer that period where the public is safe from them
Keep neglecting that part aren’t we
Not to mention, no one really knows how many criminals heard through word of mouth or elsewhere about a sentence and decided not to. No one is going to voluntarily report that in some stupid study or survey
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You don't need a survey. You look at state #1 that gives 10 years for a crime and state #2 that gives 20 years: it's that simple.
When you do, you see that the crime rate is the same in both states: state #2's harsher penalty didn't
deter anyone.