Re: [Trisquel-users] Free Software Bitcoin Mining

[chris]

Yes- of course. That's exactly the point. No one is held to account. The  
reason people end up in jail is for the wrong reasons. It ends up being for  
the benefit of employment/advancement of various parties like: prosecutors,  
police officers (the cops are doing "something"-doesn't matter if the person  
charged is guilty of a crime), mayors (further a career), politicians, prison  
owners (privatization), etc.

Then you get into the issue of prisons not really helping prisoners or  
society. Instead of being places to train, educate, and help to improve  
peoples lives they become places to which society can feel like it's gotten  
its revenge. What they do is house people in savage-like conditions. Sadly it  
rarely happens that the victims actually feel justice has been served despite  
it being one of the focus points of the system (the idea of victims rights).  
You can't ever fill that void or pain of the victims relatives and family.  
It's sad not because we haven't punished the person sufficient. Its sad  
because we think revenge is a good reason to punish people. It's not. Its  
selfish for society and those in it to think this way and misses the point  
that not all people have had the same opportunities or have been born with  
the right genes. Many of the people in prison are themselves victims. They  
are the most victimized individuals in our society.