On: Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of pris...

[Geee]

You're wrong. The whole system should be based on crime prevention, not punishment.

There should be better predictors of how likely a person is going to repeat the crime and keep him locked up for that amount of time. Also, predictors of how likely it is for someone to make their first crime, so it could be prevented in the first place.

I'm pretty sure that it's possible to predict future criminals from their Facebook data etc, and just send those people somewhere else where their environment matches their behavior.

[csense → Geee]

> predict future criminals from their Facebook data etc, and just send those people somewhere else

Sending someone to Siberia because there's a possibility that they might commit a crime in the future? Welcome to Soviet Norightsistan, comrade.

[Xcelerate → Geee]

> Also, predictors of how likely it is for someone to make their first crime, so it could be prevented in the first place.

They have those, and they're quite accurate. They're also illegal.