Why then release people from jail or why not just kill them if after serving the sentence they are shunned from society.
I probably think similarly to you but it begs a question why release if they haven't paid their debts to society.
Individually rational decisions add up to failure for society as a whole.
I think exactly the same thing every time I hear about a kid being expelled from a school. Legally, they have to go to school somewhere. What good does it do to make them someone else's problem? It's like those idiot cities that round up all their homeless and bus them to other cities.
Hell, take the homeless. We see calls all the time to push them away, raze all the tent cities, put spikes on benches and arrest people for sleeping on sidewalks. Why? Unless we're going to kill all homeless people, they have to live somewhere, don't they? What are they supposed to do?
The entire system from the bottom up is rigged against a former con. If we are to believe justice systems should be rehabilitative than when the con is released they should be made whole and all record expunged. Otherwise, we may as well kill them. They are dead to society anyway. Supposing you aren't a young offender that gets out while you still have some strength the jobs that will hire you (mostly the more dangerous labor jobs) won't have any use for you.
It's a shame. This recruiter is a perfect example of perpetuating the system by giving two extreme examples. I'm sure they won't hire anyone with a felony. Mostly because in their upper middle class upbringing they never had the threat of prison held over them. Must be nice.
Personally I'm of the opinion that almost all crimes can be solved without jailtime. The vast majority can be solved with some sort of restitution and/or rehabilitative counseling and service after which they should be given back their horse and their gun and full rights of a citizen. A slight minority just line them up and end the problem (after conviction and appeals). Prison and a life-long record are impediments to rehabilitation and ultimately harm society.
I'm in the latter camp, but the prison system in the US and a lot of the population seem to be of the opinion of the first two "belief systems".
So in practise I believe this would only amount to a partial shunning by society, as at least some employers will be okay with hiring pretty much anyone who can do the job, regardless of their crimes.
Instead felony has devolved into things like "had a roach of weed in the wrong state."
> And Draco himself, they say, being asked why he made death the penalty for most offences, replied that in his opinion the lesser ones deserved it, and for the greater ones no heavier penalty could be found.
It should be noted, however, that one of the reasons that execution was so common only a couple of centuries ago is that prisons are a modern invention. The idea of the state holding people for any amount of time just didn't exist, if only because it was cost prohibitive. It was something that only ever happened to royalty, though even then such prisoners tended to disappear. Slavery was a common punishment, but slaves lived within the community, so that wouldn't work for violence-prone individuals, or even serial thieves.