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Originally Posted by MTK
Locking people up period doesn't deter crime. Nor do longer sentences.
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It deters the people in jail from committing crimes, because they are in jail.
Trying to sentence one person in some hope everyone else will notice, should not be the most important part of a prison sentence. Shouldn't really play a role at all.. It should be to properly and fairly punish the person that committed the crime.
I don't agree for reduced sentences to not be "mean" for lack of a better term nor do I want some crazy long unjustified sentence, to try to deter others. No one should be in prison to help deter crime. That's not their responsibility.