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Restorative Justice is Better than Vengeance

Better to make victims whole than punish offenders.

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Market Restitution Services Beat State Prison System on Fairness and Humaneness

Over at C4SS’ Stateless U in ATP 101 we’re reading The Market for Liberty. Here are my comments on one of the discussion questions. “Is restitution preferable to retribution? Why or why not?” An arrangement for the resolution of disputes that focuses on restitution is more effective than one that makes as its goal the […]

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Is Prison the New Slavery? Some Libertarian Thoughts.

This is a great interview. It sheds light on why prisons are such a prominent feature of modern American culture. The fact that 1% of the US population is in prison and that they’re used as slave labor is not well-known. And that’s why this interview also makes me sick. I didn’t want to watch […]