We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world is a penal institution.
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.