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Instead of sending young people to prison, send them to do military service

Submitted by Stuart Beattie on Monday 23rd December 2024

Published on Wednesday 5th March 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 5th September 2025

Signatures: 74

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Instead of sending young people to prison, send them to do military service

Petition Details

We think the prison service is over crowded and it be better to send young people who offend to do some military service. Here they could learn essential life skills that they would not get to learn in prison.

Additional Information

We think that prisons are huge cost to tax payers, so why not send young people 21 and under to do military service instead? Here you could replace their sentence time with time in the military. We think it could dramatically change their outlook on life, increase their life skills, and prevent them from going to prison.


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