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If the point is rehabilitation, and you never give anyone an actual second chance, .... If the point is punishment, well, the reoffense rate for those prisoner

If the point is rehabilitation, and you never give anyone an actual second chance, .... If the point is punishment, well, the reoffense rate for those prisoners that never are put into rehabilitation programs is 67% after 3 years, and 75% after 5 years. http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welcome.aspx http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/Pages/welco... So i'm going to suggest that unless we have a scheme for warehousing large numbers of people pretty much forever, and supporting them, we literally have to do something different.

morley 10y ago
The source you cited never mentions rehabilitation programs; just that 67% or prisoners reoffend after 3 years, rehabilitation program or no. Am I missing something?
- birdmanjeremy 10y ago
  Probably that prison and probation are not rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is not part of the criminal justice system in the US. Punishment does not, by itself, rehabilitate successfully.
- DannyBee 10y ago
  (not sure why you were downvoted) IF you dig into their links, you can get to the data that separates out those in some sort of rehabilitation program and those not.
rco8786 10y ago
> unless we have a scheme for warehousing large numbers of people pretty much forever, and supporting them, we literally have to do something different Well, there's always the prison system.