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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 20-Jul-2018 04:23:19 EDT iona 🐝

   @ghost_bird In a lot of people's eyes, restorative justice means revenge.

   I don't believe anyone sets out to commit a crime, and most people in jail shouldn't be there.

   People often commit crime because of one of two things - mental health issues, or poverty and desperation.

   Both of those have treatments and remedies that don't involve "throw the sick and poor into prison". But people want to see revenge, rather than improvements in society for everyone.

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 20-Jul-2018 04:26:29 EDT iona 🐝

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      @ghost_bird No one thinks "I'm going to rob that Tesco because it'd be fun", it's usually "because I don't have any money and I'm desperate for something to eat".

      Similar for mental health issues. We aren't born wanting to beat people up, but pre-existing and treatable personality disorders combined with the crazy levels of anxiety we are all subjected to nowadays drive some people to do violent things.

      Help poor people, and help ill people, and stop sending them to jail to satisfy the press.