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Originally Posted by thesloppy
Sentence him to community service and cleaning up highways for 100 hours. If he gets caught with a gun again that time quadruples.
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Partial tangent to the gun control debate, but what should be able to do when they don't show up for community service (or other requirements of probation), which occurs very often? Because the media is currently telling me this is a "technical" probation violation and we're evil for revoking probation over it.
Any condition/punishment short of incarceration ultimately increases incarceration rates because those types of sentences are imposed so freely by courts that we end up with people serving long jail sentences for relatively minor crimes because they couldn't handle probation. Some judges have recognized this and even 3rd or 4th violations of probation just result in reinstating the probation term. Which basically makes the probation conditions optional.