Don't build the prisons eh? Then what will you do with the murders, the rapists, the repeatedly violent ones? Where will you put them so they cannot harm others?
There are thousands of people who grow up in broken homes, with abusive parents or alcholic parents or who live in "bad" neighborhoods and all the rest who never harm anyone, who never break the law, who are contributing members of society.
Yet, as soon as someone kills someone in a holdup, we hear of his horrible childhood "well no wonder. I mean look at the dirty deal life handed him." as if to say that he should be pardoned for what he did because of his history.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility? That man made a choice to commit robbery or rape. That man made a choice to carry a gun and made a choice to use it. And then, when he gets caught, its "oh, his background forced these choices on him. and "we've got to take his background into account. Mitigating circumstances... never really had a chance...etc.
In the meantime a family mourns.
Yes, errors are made. we must do everything in our power to see that they are NOT made. But the guilty must be made to pay for their crimes.If they do not, then there truly IS no justice.

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