Prison and Punishment from a Torah Perspective

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they put him in a pit they put him in a bur that bur in days of old that was a form of prison and in fact later on after the whole story unfolds a story we're very familiar with um ysep goes down to MIT he's sold he ends up in the house of potifa and because of the accusations of the wife of potifa he finds himself in prison says they put him into the prison where other prisoners are found is found there so it's a very good connection to discuss prison and really I just want to just give you some some facts and figures uh about how sort of embedded prison is into Western society and in all societies of course I if you think about it every civilization has devised rules for providing a system of punishment for those who offend society's Norms um and prison is commonly used as in in as as you know as one form of such punishment um to give you some stats in 2024 here in the UK where there are approximately 80 million people resident uh how many people do you think are in prison what's the prison population of the UK cir 2024 this year so amazingly this is why I've just researched recently it's approximately 100,000 it's gone up it was uh it was about 85,000 in 2014 so in the last 10 years it's increased by about 13 or 14,000 so we're close to 100,000 people in prison now in

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1. 0:39they put him in a pit they put him in a bur that bur in days…
2. 2:53that's those are those guys right so it's 96% a male and 4% a female now…
3. 5:31therefore it's uh that's one of the exceptions to where you get malus because you got…
4. 8:13of the Torah forms of punishment isn't it like when we were talking about y right…
5. 10:51crime even clothes you're only allowed to sell yourself into slavery if you really you know…
6. 13:32so furthermore next paragraph you're not allowed to to to be disparaging to him to embarrass…
7. 15:36hook but only person he K with all the correct you know criteria that goas requires…
8. 18:17serious crimes they are going to end up in prison and that in itself is a…
9. 20:49deterrent and yes of course thear says in marus that a Bas thing that kills once…
10. 23:27discussed lots of things this evening we've said you know we've connected to the paraa and…

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