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This idea was pulled from the poll about Vick and the Eagles. But is meant to be more in general.
Should people that have committed a felony crime be forgiven with full rights restored and record expunged and sealed once a certain amount of time has passed since their conviction?
Now I realize that this would naturally depend on what type of crime they committed. So what I am going to do is have a multiple choice poll. I want you to vote for the ones that you think should be forgiven after a certain amount of time. I'll say 15 years after their debt to society has been paid. This poll will assume that the person has committed no other crime in that 15 year period and has been fully reformed.
People should be forgiven and given a second chance the second their sentence is up.
If they're not going to be given a second chance, why release them at all? Better yet, if they're not going to be given a second chance, why not just put a bullet in them on the spot? There's no sense in spending so much money on prisons and corrective programs if we're just going to assume that they're still criminals once we've deemed them fit to release back into society.
I believe in giving people a second chance. I see a problem when they get a third, fourth and fifth chance and still manage to **** it up.
When it comes to felonies and felons, it's very hard to get a second chance, otherwise your right.
I believe in giving people a second chance. I see a problem when they get a third, fourth and fifth chance and still manage to **** it up.
Absolutely. As much as I push for "forgiveness" and restoration of rights for ex-convicts, I am in 100% support of "three strikes" laws. My only complaint is that the third strike is mandatory life-without-parole, when I am completely morally opposed to the practice of life-without-parole. The penalty for the third strike should be death.
I believe it is to broad of a question. There are criminals that have commited the worst of crimes that are truely remorseful and changed men/women. Some of these could be released and never commit another crime and be productive to society their entire lives. There are many that never change and would continue their behaviour.
The difficulty is knowing which a criminal might be. We will leave reformed criminals in prison to serve the rest of their lives in prison at the same time we release those that havent changed. I do not believe there is a solution that would be fair to all.
This idea was pulled from the poll about Vick and the Eagles. But is meant to be more in general.
Should people that have committed a felony crime be forgiven with full rights restored and record expunged and sealed once a certain amount of time has passed since their conviction?
Now I realize that this would naturally depend on what type of crime they committed. So what I am going to do is have a multiple choice poll. I want you to vote for the ones that you think should be forgiven after a certain amount of time. I'll say 15 years after their debt to society has been paid. This poll will assume that the person has committed no other crime in that 15 year period and has been fully reformed.
For non-violent crimes: Rights restored, sure, record expunged, never.
Committing another crime while out on bond awaiting trial should be instant death penalty-- if you can't control yourself for a couple of months when you are already in serious trouble, there's little point in trying to rehabilitate you..
Especially if the other crime is similar to the first.
I can't help but think of that woman who caused an accident with multiple fatalities while texting on her cell phone-- after several tickets and while waiting for a court appearance.
Why? It is because of records that people that have served their time and have reformed cannot get a good decent paying job. It is often that hardship that brings people back to a life of crime.
The places that bother to run a criminal background need to know if you have in fact committed crimes.
Crime has lasting consequences, so obey the law.
What about if you at some point do something stupid, and afterwards do nothing again? Should that one stupid act be a unrepairable blot on the rest of your life?
Yup.
Look at the list....burglary...grand theft...yeah those blots should never go away.
So, you are saying an obviously pre-planned violation of the laws should not be removed.
Look at the list again...murder...kidnapping...rape..."oops, my bad" doesn't cut it. Those crimes should follow you for the rest of your days.
Now if you weren't paying attention in a parking lot and you accidentally struck a child, killing them, well that's pre-planned so that's a different story altogether.
In that case your record should be expunged as soon as the child resurrects.
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