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> If you consider the primary goal of prison to be rehabilitation, Supposedly in California, the official purpose changed from rehabilitation to punishment in
by throwaway81523 4y ago
> If you consider the primary goal of prison to be rehabilitation,
Supposedly in California, the official purpose changed from rehabilitation to punishment in 1977:
https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/775/the-law-that-help-pack-californias-prisons https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/775/the-law-that-help-pack-cali...
I don't claim that's a good thing, but Holmes is faced with the prison system that exists in reality, doing what it it officially intended to do.
Although, since Holmes will be in federal rather than CA prison, I don't know whether the same law applies.