Re:Prison chess clubs helping rehabilitate inmates
by Mordisquitos on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:47PM
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I would argue that you are placing misnamed choices. Both are different flavours of Justice:
A) Retributive Justice: Put them in Jail for long time.
B) Rehabilitative Justice: Put them in medical care for an year till their gambling addiction is cured. Then they are free to integrate back into society.
All else being equal, I would absolutely prefer B over A. However, there is also a third option C, which can be combined with either A or B:
C) Restorative Justice: Require them to do a certain type and amount of work for you or for the state to make up for an agreed amount of your lost money and moral damages.
Give me a mix of B and C any day, and throw A down the drain (in the sense of prison purely as punishment, I have nothing against using prison to protect society from certain criminals).
A) Retributive Justice: Put them in Jail for long time.
B) Rehabilitative Justice: Put them in medical care for an year till their gambling addiction is cured. Then they are free to integrate back into society.
All else being equal, I would absolutely prefer B over A. However, there is also a third option C, which can be combined with either A or B:
C) Restorative Justice: Require them to do a certain type and amount of work for you or for the state to make up for an agreed amount of your lost money and moral damages.
Give me a mix of B and C any day, and throw A down the drain (in the sense of prison purely as punishment, I have nothing against using prison to protect society from certain criminals).