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So, we are motivationally innocent. And effort-wise we are all doing the best we can (even if it sucks and hurts someone in the process). No evil here either, just the reality of modern-day jungle. Does this mean that we have to open up the jails and let everyone out? Of course, not. As a society, we have to stay safe from those who are unsafe. As a society, we have to protect ourselves against those who – for reasons of nature, nurture, or both – are unable to pursue their wellbeing within the cultural-legal parameters. But as a civilization, we don’t have to demonize the less empathic of us as “evil.”
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http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindfu...l/#comment-863
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The US has the largest prison population in the world, both in numbers and as a percentage of population. As of June 2009, 2,297,400 people were incarcerated in the US, a rate of 748 inmates per 100,000 residents.
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/ja...hrwr-j28.shtml
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April 13, 2011 — More than four in ten offenders nationwide return to state prison within three years of their release despite a massive increase in state spending on prisons, according to a Pew report.
States today spend more than $50 billion a year on corrections, yet recidivism rates remain stubbornly high. As the slumping economy forces states to do more with less, policy makers are looking for a better public safety return on their corrections dollars.
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If remediation and rehabilitation reduced the prison population or the recidivism rate by by say twenty percent, would the effort be worthwhile?
Albeit, perhaps the most interesting part of this thread is the realization Somov's theory may never be implemented.