Prison has four purposes protecting society, rehabilitation, deterrence and retribution. You can protect society in the short run by putting dangerous people in jail, but in the long run you need one of two strategies: rehabilitate them, or never let them out. A lot of Western prisons fail to do either, and so they just turn people out after a few years even harder, more unbalanced and more dangerous than they came in.
It's honestly a really complicated subject. The more you lean to the "throw them in jail and lock away the key" philosophy, where you don't care how offenders end up mentally because you're never going to let them out, the more horrific the injustices you put the falsely sentenced through. Plus, some people have serious problems with holding reformable people in concentration camps for the rest of their lives.
But on the other hand, a very rehabilitation-focused approach doesn't just taste bad to the retribution-hungry: it's also arguably weakens the deterrence platform, as the consequences of prison (punishment and stigma) are softened. This is especially true in richer countries, where prison conditions are better. Immigrant criminals from poor countries find that most prisons in the US or UK are like hotels compared to what they've experienced in their respective countries.
What say you Coli?
It's honestly a really complicated subject. The more you lean to the "throw them in jail and lock away the key" philosophy, where you don't care how offenders end up mentally because you're never going to let them out, the more horrific the injustices you put the falsely sentenced through. Plus, some people have serious problems with holding reformable people in concentration camps for the rest of their lives.
But on the other hand, a very rehabilitation-focused approach doesn't just taste bad to the retribution-hungry: it's also arguably weakens the deterrence platform, as the consequences of prison (punishment and stigma) are softened. This is especially true in richer countries, where prison conditions are better. Immigrant criminals from poor countries find that most prisons in the US or UK are like hotels compared to what they've experienced in their respective countries.
What say you Coli?
once in the real world, they're free prisoners. No job, no home, can't do shyt... The government need to do something about that. They spent 4-6 yrs in prison but they can't do shyt once they're out.
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You nyggas really don't understand what you say.