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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"If blues and greens will vote for crimes against blues and greens to have light penalties, and purples and greys will vote for crimes against purples and greys to have stiff penalties, and everyone will be okay with other castes doing that, that's the system working as intended from our standpoint."
"Could you have consistent penalties and a lot of weight given in sentencing to the wishes of the victim, and then castes which care to have a norm against stiff sentences for their members could directly request those when relevant?"
"- I'm not sure I've correctly communicated the - when someone's been, say, defrauded, they will probably prefer harsher penalties for the perpetrator if those are available. But if they're voting on general policy, I believe that purples and greys are likely to prefer harsher sentences for any castes they can vote on, and blues, greens, and yellows are likely to want lighter sentences for themselves even if in so voting they grant the same to other castes. I'm not sure about oranges."
"So you don't think you can come up with any proposed sentencing law that will have majority approval within every caste?"
"Right. Disparate sentencing like we have now will poll fine with the higher status castes but poorly with the lower, making everything gentler would be similar, making everything harsher would be the reverse."
"The rule for prison conditions is that they're allowed to transfer, is that going to be a concern?"
"Yes - couple places requested the swap infrastructure make it possible to separate co-conspirators and so on, we can accommodate that -"
"Does this mean we have to shut down the prisons that manage themselves by only allowing in certain applicants or is it only the other way around -?"
"So we can still have one-caste prisons just fine - yeah I think we can get that through all right."
"One-caste prisons are just Amentans but there are lots of countries that offered something unique and as long as prisoners prefer it to something that meets our standards it wouldn't make sense to say it fails to meet them."
"Various religions that offer a monastic retreat kind of thing, single-gender is of course a popular option, there's a place with chips like ours that has the victims record the experience of the crime that they had and send it so the criminal experiences it too, which sounds horrible to us but rather few of them transfer out, there's a cultural belief that once you've lived a mistake a hundredfold it's like it never touched you."
Shrug. "Like - the victim will consider it as if you are a stranger and not the person who harmed them, employers won't consider it, God won't care for the ones who believe in that..."
"They do have really low recidivism - but I don't think it'd work for anyone else, runs off too much cultural stuff."