On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:17:48 +0000, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=AEi=A9ardo?=
wrote:

On 25/01/2012 19:57, Clive George wrote:
On 25/01/2012 19:15, 'Mike' wrote:
In a nutshell, prison is not a deterrent.

But we know neither is the death penalty.

If it was, why is the prison population the highest it has ever been?

That's not necessarily a very simple question to answer, and it's
definitely not just because people think prison is too easy. Which
country has the easier prison life - UK or US? Most would agree it's the
UK. Which country has the larger prison population? It's the US. Their
harder prisons aren't a deterrent either.


Perhaps you've failed to notice that their population is five times
bigger than ours.

You will find that they have more crimes per unit of population than
we do.

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Cynic