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Discussion Post
A. Do we as a society tend to continue punishing those who have served their time in prison? One of the main reasons that offenders recidivate is that they are unable to find and hold a job. If you owned a business, would you be willing to hire someone who had served time in prison over another applicant if they both were equally skilled? What if you were given an incentive to hire a recently released offender, such as the government paying the employee's salary? Under what circumstances would you hire a person who had spent time in jail or prison?
B. What would happen to a society without laws? In the United States, how did we make laws and how do they continue to be made? Find an example of an "Old English Law," or a law that is no longer on the books or enforced. Post a summary of that law. The colonists used the "Old English Laws" until their own laws were established. Here are examples.
1. In South Carolina, the "Rule of Thumb" was established when the law stated that men could not beat their wives with a twig any bigger than the width of their thumb.
2. In the south, the "Curtain Law" said that men could only beat their wives behind closed curtains, but not on a Sunday after 10 p.m.
3. In North Dakota it was legal to shoot an Indian on horseback, provided you are in a covered wagon.
4. In Alabama, it's illegal to drive while blindfolded.