The very concept of rehabilitation is relatively recent and is not supported by any empirical evidence. It certainly is not likely to happen the way our prisons are currently organized, even if it was. The purposes of incarceration are (not in any particular order) punishment, deterrence, and isolation of criminals from the community.
You set up a prison to make people pay a price for criminal behavior and to deter them from that behavior by making them fear paying that price. A side benefit is that while they are in prison they can no longer commit crimes, so the number of criminals active in society is reduced.
Rehabilitation is a fantasy. I can think of several types of activity I would engage in if it were not for the threat of incarceration. No amount of rehabilitation would persuade me not to want to engage in these activities, but even the slightest threat of incarceration acts as a very effective deterrent.
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Jail is NOT about rehabilitation.
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- Winning hearts and minds...
- re: Winning hearts and minds...
- This " xxxx years in prison with parole" has never worked for me.
- Mandatory castration for convicted rapists. (n/t)
- That could be for the first offense.
- And if you could assure me that our justice system is infallible, I might agree.
- I agree.
- Another side of the issue
- The Christian approach to the death penalty.
- re: And if you could assure me that our justice system is infallible, I might agree.
- Jail time was ment for rehabilitation. Is it really working?
- And if you could assure me that our justice system is infallible, I might agree.
- That could be for the first offense.
- Mandatory castration for convicted rapists. (n/t)
- This " xxxx years in prison with parole" has never worked for me.
- re: Winning hearts and minds...