Imprisonment is not the answer | Wide White

Imprisonment is not the answer | Wide White: "the law can only do so much to prevent tragedy, and this is not a case where changing the law, especially with new prison sentences, will help."

"While crime prevention is certainly a role of the justice system, we can’t expect the justice system to prevent all crimes from occurring."

"When considering imprisonment as a punishment for a crime, we have to ask ourselves three questions. First, will imprisonment teach this person a lesson that they could not otherwise learn outside of prison? Second, do the crimes committed by this person warrant separating them from the rest of society for a period of time? Third, is imprisonment necessary to keep this person from causing anymore problems for society than they already have? I’m not convinced that negligence warrants a prison sentence under these guidelines."