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tl;dr Prisons are designed like their goal is not reform but waste containment. Also, your sentence doesn't really end after your release due to housing/job re
by ChrisArgyle 11y ago
tl;dr Prisons are designed like their goal is not reform but waste containment. Also, your sentence doesn't really end after your release due to housing/job restrictions, societal biases against ex-cons.
A pretty good read but nothing that hasn't been said before. Skip it if you've seen Orange is the New Black or Vice's "Fixing the System"
- JackFr 11y agoRole of prisons is threefold: incapacitation, rehabilitation and punishment. As they're run today, they're largely only able to accomplish the third. It's almost reasonable to consider just abandoning prisons and simply return to corporal and capital punishment.
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