A Society that Can’t Bestir Itself…

…to make sure it’s imprisoning the same people it convicted is doomed. Catch this headline: “Rich Danish criminals pay stand-ins to serve sentences”:

Lax security at Danish prisons is allowing criminals to hire impersonators to serve their sentences in their place. Wealthy felons have been exploiting Denmark’s relaxed criminal justice regime under which there can be a period of months between a conviction and the start of a sentence.
During these gaps, as many as 100 doubles are believed to have been hired to present themselves at prison gates to stand in for the real prisoners, earning up to

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