At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard

Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by throwawaymath on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:21AM (#19461815)

I think you misinterpreted their point. They don't mean rehabilitation as an ideal doesn't work. They mean rehabilitation as the goal of modern American incarceration has failed. People don't get rehabilitated. They become institutional criminals.

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by dragonwriter on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:35AM (#19461913)

> They mean rehabilitation as the goal of modern American incarcetation has failed.

It has not failed, because it is not, and has never been, in any meaningful sense, the goal of any of the American criminal justice systems.

Specifically, none of them have been in any substantive way been designed around any evidence of what does or does not work in terms of rehabilitation.

The US criminal justice systems focus on retribution and demonstration of moral outrage, not rehabilitation.

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by Fjolsvith on Friday March 22, 2019 @10:00AM (#19462541)

> People don't get rehabilitated. They become institutional criminals.

This is a blanket statement and not realistic. I've been through the system and knew a lot of guys who abhorred becoming institutional criminals.

Please cite sources to support your claim.

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by throwawaymath on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:09PM (#19466995)

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I was just talking about what happens in the aggregate.

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