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E) stop trying to apply simple heuristics to people. The solution is really simple in principle but also really difficult in practice. Treat everyone as an ind
by cam_l 11y ago
E) stop trying to apply simple heuristics to people.
The solution is really simple in principle but also really difficult in practice. Treat everyone as an individual, case by case. Use prison as a place for reform and rehabilitation, not punishment. Provide the resources, programs and incentive to help them reform. Prison should not be separate from society, but merely limit the freedoms they have abused (ie.for violent offenders remove the freedom to assault; for organised crime the freedom to associate) until they have proven their willingness to reform and that they no longer pose a threat.
But now you have three problems, doing this is really expensive, really difficult to judge when rehabilitation is sufficient, and really, really hard to put fair and just limits around continued incarceration. Mind you, the current system has all these problems anyway.
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- cam_l 11y agoI am going to go ahead and rephrase that as a question for you. "Do you advocate prison as a place of solely rehabilitation because you're putting yourself and the people that you know in that hypothetical situation?" no. i have met these people, i agree it is difficult.. and my partner works as a psych for kids effected by family violence and abuse. the stories i have heard from her.. makes me want to castrate those fuckers with a rusty knife. but that doesn't fix anything for anyone. problem is, you would think for prisoners rehabilitation is easy and punishment is hard. it is the other way around. there was a small long term counselling program running in my state for rehabilitation in prisons. it was massively successful in reducing recidivism, but nearly every prisoner subjected to it said they hated it and would prefer to have a longer sentence. it was cut by the previous right wing government, and now recidivism (and private ownership of prisons) is up. rehabilitation works. punishment decreases the incentive to reintegrate with society. and if the prisoner resists—and this was the part i was alluding to in my previous post—it is their responsibility and continued deprivation of liberties is required, until they serve out their life or reform.
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