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Vol 1 - issue 65 ELITE
Life After Prison
International law signifies that the
main goal of imprisonment is
rehabilitation; governments that strip
individuals of their freedom
simultaneously owe them a greater
commitment and duty of care. The
premise of the criminal justice system is
thus "life after prison," wherein ex- Don’t expect prisons to reduce crime !
offenders who successfully complete Do the justifications of prison contradict
intervention programs like education, each other?
job training, therapy, and cognitive- When you house a bunch of really
behavioral therapy can recover their violent people together where they get
status as law-abiding citizens. The goal acquainted with each other and can train
is to maximize recidivism reduction one another in further criminal activity,
while also preventing them from where they’re exposed to inhumane
developing antisocial personalities and treatment and abuse from other
criminal thinking. prisoners and staff and then let go of
Second, data reveal that within the them only to leave them to fend off for
first six weeks of release, job and themselves with no money, no
housing possibilities are at an all-time employment prospects and no new sense
low, prompting questions about whether of morality, do you truly expect them to
jails are effective rehabilitation facilities be able to function in normal society
or if they are just institutions in which again!
people's lives are placed on hold. The only way these criminals could
survive in prison is to comply with the
rules of prison society and the longer
they are there, the more they forget how
to function as civilized human beings.
Thus, the primary justification for the
existence of prisons is incapacitation
(making society safer by removing
dangerous offenders) and retribution
(punishing transgressors). Any other
explanation that prisons deter potential
offenders from committing crimes and
that those who do serve a sentence leave
the institution as better people is ,
unfortunately, not supported by reality.
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