Comment by SoftTalker
12 hours ago
For a consequence to be effective, you have to lose something. If you go to prison, the big thing you lose is freedom of movement. But other things, such as who you live with, what you eat, and the ability to vote are other things.
I don’t think we have a broad consensus that incarceration is effective.
No longer being able to vote seems like a rather petty inconvenience to heap on top