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Instead of prisons and such, those guilty should be denied the protection of law, that way we can avoid severely overcrowded prisons and we dont have to even build them! Isnt that a great idea?

Except you will then have desperate criminals with no incentive to behave running about the country.

You'll also end up like parts of Mexico with rich criminals creating their own pseudo-states.

it is essentially a death sentence

the overcrowding of prisons should be addressed by the decriminalization of many many many crimes and ending mandatory minimums and letting judges judge and treating individuals as well, individuals. george will recently wrote that such mandatory minimum federal crimes are " are multiplying at a rate of more than 500 a decade ... The federal government, having failed at core functions, such as fairly administering a rational revenue system, acts like a sheriff with attention-deficit disorder, haphazardly criminalizing this and that behavior in order to express righteous alarm about various wrongs that excite attention." the federal prison population has expanded 51% in the last 13 years. which is INSANE.

i remember the uproar over some american kid graffiting in singapore, getting caught, and sentanced to being caned a few times. and people thought that was so barbarous. why not lock him up for 5 years instead like civilized people? oh wait, he has some punishment gets taught a lesson that it will be both painful and humiliating to do that, and then goes on with his life. and it cost the state very little to do that. and he's not caught up in the rampant recidivism that plagues the population that has been in prison. the us has 25% of the world's prisoners, yet only 5% of the world's population

The biggest outlaws always get away with everything.

This idea needs no introduction, it's in place and the law can't touch them.

well i think he is more talking about branding people outlaws meaning you can do whatever they want to them and the law will do nothing to you

I'm pretty sure you're right, John.