My objection to that is the incentive structure: it incentivizes convicting people for dumb or non-existent crimes to get forced labor.I prefer the Roman answer. If your crime isn’t severe enough to warrant execution you will be made to pay it off with forced labor. My idea would be the money you earn during that period that isn’t used to provide upkeep, is paid to your victim.
That Maxwell is considered nonviolent is bullshit IMO. She, at the very least helped cause massive amounts of child rape.The idea that prison should reform prisoners rather than punish them does seem to leave undesirable results when it comes to non-violent offenders.
I'm quite fine with reforming prisoners, even violent ones, who want to change and haven't gone far past the moral event horizon. Yes, people do bad things, like robbery, assault, etc. These aren't nonviolent things. But we should have a way to try and reform the ones who can and want to, instead of sending them to criminal college.
Compare this to Maxwell, who ruined countless lives. She's one of the worst criminals in the US.