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Forget length of sentences.
You need to go back to the source of problems. From birth, through childhood. That's where you get adults who just never stood a chance in life.
Sadly you'll ALWAYS have these and those that go onto offend even in a eutopian society. So it's pointless making sentances draconianly longer. The only purpose longer sentances give been fit is keeping habitual/serial offenders away from being 'operational' on the street.
You can change the odd child's direction (my community bobby sorted me out sharpish) of offending but once they start a routine of drugs within a culture of no respect for the law or community then it becomes managing them for the rest of their lives. Longer sentances arent the answer.
All IMO of course 🙂
maybe that is because conditions are too tolerable inside ?
It's a wonder people aren't queuing up to do time.
Those hatton-heist robbers weren't daft.
plan A) get away with it.
plan B) save their families a fortune on nursing-home fees...
You can change the odd child's direction (my community bobby sorted me out sharpish) of offending but once they start a routine of drugs within a culture of no respect for the law or community then it becomes managing them for the rest of their lives. Longer sentances arent the answer.
Prison *is* a way of managing people for the rest of their lives, thus ensuring they don't re-offend, or if they do it's not against the general public.
The case we're discussing is *exactly* the kind of case where someone will always re-offend given the chance, but by keeping her inside she is limited to failed plots to cut fingers off prison guards rather than successfully killing random dog walkers.
If there was ever a case where a long sentence was a very good solution this is it.
maybe that is because conditions are too tolerable inside ?
This is the states we are talking about, the country that came up with supermax prisons and Guantanimo Bay.