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Originally Posted by jujumantb

minor offences that dont warrant jail time almost always have a tone of community service hours attached, its only major offences and people deemed a threat to their community who get jail time. jail is a place to to reflect on what you did, most everyone who goes to jail here in america will tell you its the worst experience of their life and will do anything to not go back. repeat offences, i would say, are more a result of poverty mixed with culturally driven poor choices than our jail system.

I think you're right. You always see guys on cops saying "I can't go back, I don't want to go back, man" Nobody wants to go back to jail, but they end up there because they take up crime in an attempt to escape poverty. Either that or they just can't give up bad habits or hanging with bad influences.