Continued from yesterday’s post, Part 1.
Ever since grade school, I’ve been fervently interested in prison reform. I had compassion for these “bad people.” I would want the prison experience to give a “bad” person every reason, every chance, every motivation to mend one’s ways. But this is definitely not happening in our prisons now.
At first glance, I was skeptical about offering treatment to people while they’re incarcerated. However, this approach does sound good to me.
“It’s a proven fact that prison doesn’t do anything for drug addiction — nothing. Then when they come back they’re recidivists. If you say prison is for punishment, fine. But if you say it’s so people don’t come back then you’ve got to do something so they don’t come back.”
Reblogged 2022-11-17.
I may not agree with everything she says here, but I probably agree with most of it.
This report provides real, hard numbers as to how much it actually costs to incarcerate someone.
It’s not a good idea.
See also: A negative return on investing in prisons
Reblogged 2021-06-24.
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