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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by gns24 on Friday December 30, 2016 @05:20PM (#13287999)
I found this article on how jail in the Netherlands is focused on giving prisoners whatever they need to go back into society and not reoffend interesting. They claim that under 10% of prisoners reoffend, compared to about 50% in England and the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37904263

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Re:U.S. Incarceration and Crime Rates Continue to Fall in Ta... by rhizome on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:13PM (#13288342)
Rehabilitation was removed from US prison policy about 40 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Martinson

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