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Originally Posted by mineistaken
My idea would be 100% ok with this line of thinking because majority of society would agree that violent criminals should be treated harsher in prison than non violent criminals.
I am speaking about this part of the quote:
3. They are treated exactly the same as rapists and murders.
And my idea is to treat them differently.
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But i think this is already acknowledged as a huge problem in the system and obviously things have to change as mandatory sentencing and taking the power out of judges hands to use their own discretion has put everyone in these positions. I don't see building more prisons to separate non violent and violent offenders as being an answer to the problem of too many people in prison to begin with.
And it seriously is not fair to say that low level drug offenders are treated as murderers. There are minimum security prisons, medium security prisons, maximum security prisons and supermax prisons with people being also separated within those systems. It's not accurate to say everyone is treated the same.