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  • This bit of the post from the other page;

    How fucking obvious does it have to be before the penal system is seen as the vast net detriment it actually is? Are people really that fearful and easily turned against each other?

    Why is it so hard for us to see who we really need to turn against?

    I recognise that there are a lot of problems with our current system, so I'm curious about what the progressive answer is to what I'd say has been my most common experience of crime.

    And honestly, sure it's something that does illicit a reactionary gut response. But the question stands.

  • what I'd say has been my most common experience of crime.

    Your most common direct experience of crime. We all experience, every day, the indirect effects of a society where workers are illegally expoited, driving down wages, industrial scale fraud and tax evasion squeeze public services, and the behaviour of the super rich entrenches health and social inequalities, maintaining the existence of an underclass with poor health and economic outcomes, placing further strain on public services, and creating the conditions for the anti-social behaviour and petty crime you have described. Locking people up is expensive and makes them worse.

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