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In 1976 speech, Biden said US criminal justice should focus on punishment not rehabilitation
Added 08-14-19 02:29:01am EST - “In a 1976 speech in Idaho, then-Sen. Joe Biden said the U.S. criminal justice system should stress punishment rather than rehabilitation -- a? direct contradiction to his current platform, which focuses on rehabilitation, according…” - Foxnews.com
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In a 1976 speech in Idaho, then-Sen. Joe Biden said the U.S. criminal justice system should stress punishment rather than rehabilitation -- a direct contradiction to his current platform, which focuses on rehabilitation, according to a report.
“Why should we liberals, why should we Democrats, apologize for saying a criminal justice system has implicit in it the idea that a crime should be met with a punishment? What is wrong with that?” the senator from Delaware said at the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Boise, Idaho, in audio reportedly obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“Why should we liberals, why should we Democrats, apologize for saying a criminal justice system has implicit in it the idea that a crime should be met with a punishment? What is wrong with that?”
In the speech, Biden also said that liberals claim convicts need to be rehabilitated but there’s a recognition that "We have not found a way to rehabilitate.”
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profswarn
@annesheraton I do not. I think the concept is driven by our sense of justice, but the idea of what it actually mea… https://t.co/QJOWwnpgRa
prohibitionprt2
what if we… decriminalize the use of drugs… and focus more on the rehabilitation aspect of the justice system rathe… https://t.co/pd7PLBXUlJ
BeckiHuggins
Where we don’t kill animals by the trillions, where death isn’t a punishment and only rehabilitation and healing ar… https://t.co/kWhF4zAtIM
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UnapTheCentrist
@schwarzgran Letting go convicts because they changed is honestly no problem but that requires the justice system t… https://t.co/L6StnHAYR9