From: Jim Carroll - PM Date: 22 Sep 17 - 07:19 AM Might have known one of the usual suspects would be here defending the abuse of children "Does it have to?" If prison is not there to reform it is there to take revenge - taking revenge on children is onscene Jim Carroll
Those are not the only purposes of imprisonment.
A further important one is the protection of the law-abiding public. It also acts as a deterrent. Which clearly means it is not an either/or question between revenge and reform.
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