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Originally posted by Sunny_01
As an ex prison officer - we were taught during our basic training that we were not there to punish, their sentence and resitriction of liberty is the punishment, the prison is purely there so that their sentence is served safely.

Abnsoutely. I agree. I can't believe people who think that prisoners should be horsewhipped daily. Many prisoners come out reformed characters and it would be sad for society to so easily give up on people due to mistakes that they may have made.

On the other hand we have career criminals and serial killers. We must not show leniency but where do you draw the line. In america a sixteen years old who's complicit to a murder can be charged with the death penalty if it's sufficiently horrendous crime. We should never be killing 16 year old kids. But that's just my own personal opinion.