Talk:Incarceration

message: The article currently states QUOTE There are many reasons given for justification of such punishment. In the 16th century, the Bishop of Trier, Binsfeld, in his Tractatus de Confessionibus Maleficorum (1596) claimed that
since the sinfulness of the world increases, God also allows increasing the severity of punishments. UNQUOTE
The article must include a proper exegetical summary of Biblical viewpoints on incarceration and - if one insists - references like the one above. The exegesis will demonstrate that the Bishop of Trier acted on his won account and certainly not on Biblical grounds.
PROPOSE: Remove the Bishop's quote, OR keep the quote but add a short paragraph on the reality that the Bible advocates restitution as the basis for Justice, nor incarceration.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JJAlexander (talk • contribs) 14:32, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Christian religion unbalanced 

message: This should not be a redirect to prison; one can be incarcerated in many other places than a prison.
DryGrain 17:47, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect? 

message: * Delete Wow! This article is a real mess. A good encyclopedia article (or any survey article in any context, for that matter) should start with a basic definition of the subject before plunging into an in-depth discussion. David Cruise 10:41, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Incarceration]]

message: Will somebody please tell me why my addition of a definition of incarceration (direct from Latin) was removed, and the page reverted? Aeh4543 17:37, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, because I reverted to Wikipedia style. The first word of the article should (generally) be the same word/words as the heading. Secondly, as this article is called Incarceration the object is to explain Incarceration, and definitely not to start with an explanation of where the "The term incarcerate" comes from, as you did. Note our Main Page article today, "Cryptography".  We say what it is, not where the name comes from. Cheers. Moriori 23:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition Removed?

message: Can the person who placed the warning sign comment on what they would like to see improved on this page?  I think this page has a great potential to be very informative and interesting, but needs a greater discussion and direction to what is missing and what needs to be fixed and edited.  Thanks! Leah 22:51, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The tag was inserted by User:205.118.16.153 who didn't explain his reasons for it. You can contact him on his talk page here. Moriori 01:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Worldwide View

message: Incarceration costs $25,000 a year on average per inmate in the USA. That does not include costs of police, courts, parole and probation officers, etc.. All those costs are listed here:
*http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/exptyptab.htm
*http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/expgovtab.htm
There are nations that spend less in total taxes than the USA per capita and they have lower crime rates and much lower incarceration rates. Total taxes in various nations as a percent of their total economy (GDP, Gross Domestic Product): 
*http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/TFDB/TFTemplate.cfm?Docid=307&Topic2id=95 --Timeshifter 07:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats 

message: I don't understand the illustration at the top of this article (:Image:Tullianum.jpg). What is it a picture of? —Bkell (talk) 06:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, since no one has been able to explain this image for over a year, I'm going to remove it. —Bkell (talk) 01:52, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I've nominated the image for deletion; anyone interested in keeping the image can contribute to the deletion discussion. —Bkell (talk) 01:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustration 

message: Surely there have been philosophers who have dealt with this rather serious issue, have there not? Vranak (talk) 20:49, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philosophy of Imprisonment 

message: Oppose unless further explanation is forthcoming. Imprisonment is a term of art which includes the tort and crime of false imprisonment. It is not clear to me that incarceration is a term of art at all. It is not clear to me that it includes false imprisonment (I do not think that a hostage would normally be described as incarcerated, whereas he is certainly technically imprisoned). And we have incarceration defined as "the detention of a person in prison", whereas the legal definition of imprisonment is detention of a person anywhere, including, in particular, places other than the type of institution to which the term "prison" normally refers.
I made the post above on 24 March but forgot to sign it. James500 (talk) 16:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment - Imprisonment isn't the only type of custodial sentence. You would have to make sure that the material in this article doesn't relate to any of the others. James500 (talk) 06:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal, made by another editor, to merge [[Imprisonment]] into this article