The world is a penal institution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.
Punishment is lame, but it comes.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.