So I just discovered that I have been working next to the waste of oxygen that raped my best friend several years ago. I work in a manufacturing environment and I know that you can’t fire someone just for being a sex offender unless it directly interferes with work duties (in the US). But despite it being a primarily male workforce he does work with several women who have no idea what he is. He literally followed a woman home, broke into her house, and raped her. Him working here puts every female employee at risk. How is that not an unsafe working environment? How is it at even legal to employ him anywhere where he will have contact with women?

    • @retrieval4558@mander.xyz
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      2610 months ago

      And the shocking percentage of innocent people who are forced into bad plea deals or railroaded by the system? Do we throw away the key for them too?

      • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        -2910 months ago

        Those people are why I didn’t say we should execute them. They can still prove their innocence and get out.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          2010 months ago

          The system doesn’t work, we should just throw away the key, and somehow the innocent will prove they are so from behind the gates we locked forever?

          That’s not logical.

          • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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            -410 months ago

            Neither is letting out convicted rapists and murderers on the off chance some of them are innocent. The fix to that problem is not to release people early, it’s to reform the investigation and trial process so that wrongful convictions don’t happen in the first place.

            • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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              110 months ago

              Who said anything about letting people out early? You just decided I was talking about early release, but I never said that.

              The answer is, as always, spending some money on actual rehabilitation and letting them go at the end of that, or their sentence.

              • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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                -310 months ago

                If they have a defined sentence instead of “until you are rehabilitated” then you are letting them out early.

                • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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                  In some kinds of Justice “until rehabilitated” is the sentence. And other systems part of rehabilitation is accepting the rest of your sentence with equanimity. You are so dead set on the idea of releasing some slavering barbarian early that you’re missing the entire point of the conversation.

                  • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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                    010 months ago

                    In some kinds of Justice “until rehabilitated” is the sentence

                    If that was true in ALL kinds I would be fine with it. It’s not. I’ve personally known people released from prison who were no better than when they went in.