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