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Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I don't even kill spiders. It's hard to look at that photo and understand, how this young adult even considered doing this. What broke him like that? Maybe, instead of killing him, we can somehow guarantee no new guys like him would happen. Not in a genetic crime bullshit fashion, but in providing psychological services, making regular checks, noticing them and reaching out before they act like that? He's a fucking idiot, but also a guy that fell through many safety nets proving them ineffective.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's not how the prison industry works. There's no money in fixing people if you can use them as unpaid labour.

[–] BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"prison industry" - I like that

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are actually privately owned prisons, with investors, and profit incentives, and they're a problem.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And they literally do forced labor for corporations, who pay the prison for that, which is legal because slavery is still legal in prisons. It's absolutely an industry.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I know in the early 2000s both McDonalds and Applebee's were known to have used prison labor to have their uniforms made.

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I seen some doc about some ultra tough texan prison guy. He was all "We need to punish people and my prison the best because we break our prisoners and make them behave perfectly and control everything they can do so they do no wrong. Then finally after decades of doing that we release then into the public all fixed"

So the doc was about him going to Norway where they live on this island and have a room and "freedom" to wander around. They just have to be at certain places at certain times and can't do lots of stuff. He gets on the ferry and the guy running the ferry is a prisoner in a paid job. He tells him he tried to get that job because that's the easiest way to escape. But then he laughed and told him he was joking.

The whole time this texan is just confused that a prison like that has better rehabilitation and lower repeated criminals than his prison

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I write about what can be done before the bloodshed and the prison sentence. But yeah, the next logical step is to look into these fuckers too.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People who feel like they have nothing to live for often take their frustration out on others.

It's like they know their lives suck and likely won't get better, so they focus on making other people's lives worse because it's literally all they feel they can do.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I don't think people realize how true this is. People like this are a symptom of society failing them, not them failing society.

It is these people that need love and compassion the most. Preferably before they go crazy.

[–] derf82@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, instead of killing him, we can somehow guarantee no new guys like him would happen.

How are those mutually exclusive? Do you think killing him will make him respawn somewhere?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's that thing you gamers do where you hang around the respawn area and kill people as they come back?

[–] SomeSphinx@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Spawncamping, not sure how that'd work here though.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Shoot his mom in the vagina?