Countries Have Outlawed Life Imprisonment.

Countries that have outlawed life imprisonment:

Brazil
Bolivia
Cape Verde
Colombia
Costa Rica
East Timor
El Salvador
Mozambique
Nicaragua
São Tomé and Príncipe
Venezuela
Andorra
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Colombia
Mongolia
Croatia
Iceland (in practice)
Liechtenstein (in practice)
Mexico (in most of their states)
Monaco (in practice)
Montenegro
Norway
Spain
San Marino
Portugal (Portugal's constitution prohibits indefinite sentences, and its maximum penalty is 25 years.)

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And your point would be??

 

AGAIN: WHAT IS YOUR POINT? DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GOOD THING?

 

Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't sure if you were being sarcastic, or meant something else.

Yes, I think it is a very good idea. It is the trend of human rights and human progress. It is the best thing for all countries. And hopefully soon, life imprisonment will become a thing of the past like torture and the death penalty.

 

So, let's see if I have this right: No life sentences for example--A man rapes and kills a child. Or someone kills a whole family. Or shoots up a school and kills a bunch of 1st or second graders. Etc,etc,etc.

Now, in your other post you said it would be right to end the death penalty. OK. So you advocate for no death penalty and no life sentences. Do I have your positions stated correctly?

So what sentences should those I mentioned in my first statement receive? If they can"t be sentenced to life and they can"t be sentenced to death--when will / should they be getting back out into society??

And why should they?

 

Anyways. I am trying figure out they handle that in other societies, people who are still a risk. I think they are kept on a mental health hold then. Those can be lifelong and there's no human rights abuse if it's justified and the person is kept in a hospital or residential-type setting, instead of a prison or jail holding cell.

And maybe someday we can just treat all crime like a disease. Like Gandhi said

"All criminals should be treated as patients and the jails should be hospitals admitting this class of patients for treatment and cure. No one commits crime for the fun of it. It is a sign of a diseased mind."

Actually, the turning point in my views (which tended to be more more law and order, like most Americans) came around 1994 when I used to read a British tabloid in a local book store. There was basically no internet then, nor ebooks, Google, etc. And it was interesting because it was from an ultra-conservative perspective, like most UK tabloids. It said prison was a last resort for crimes and repeat offenders. And looking into the cause of crime and investing in prevention made a lot more sense than locking people up and throwing away the key, like we were doing in the US at the time with Clinton and his three strikes law.

 

“I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.”

Nick Yarris.

“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.”

Angela Davis.

“Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.”

George Bernard Shaw.

“Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.”

George Bernard Shaw.

“Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.”

Angela Davis.

“The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.”

Alexander Hamilton.

“I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment...Our imprisonment policies are counterproductive.”

William J. Clinton.

“If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.”

Mary Landrieu.

“Prisons, far from providing a path to redemption, often exacerbate the very issues they aim to resolve.”

Rove Monteux.

“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.”

Angela Davis.

“All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.”

Conrad Black.

“Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.”

Emmeline Pankhurst.

“Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.”

Richard Wright.

“People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.”

Pete Earley.

“Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time.”

Clint Smith.

“Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety.”

Sadiq Khan.

“The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.”

Jack Herer.

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”

Nelson Mandela.