Rehabilitation was never the purpose of incarceration. The real reasons for imprisonment are retribution and segregation. Criminals must be punished and separated from society.
Rehabilitation is what they are 'said' to be offering instead of short prison services. So instead of isolating them your making them work near vulnerable people usually.
There may have been a time before prisons became commercial when rehabilitation was the desired outcome. The minute prisoners provided profits to a corporation, recidivism became more important than rehabilitation.
I'm going to assume you don't know this piece of information. Corporate prisons can sue States for lack of profits if they don't convict enough people. It's one of the little known things about the screwed up system.
Courts could soon be handing out more rehabilitative community sentences, rather than sending people to jail for short terms, under radical new plans.
I think you're thinking of the US system, the UK system seems to be barely holding together and the few friends I have in the UK that have ties to prison officers there tell me the private prisons are MUCH worse with gangs essentially owning the prison.
Rehabilitation was never the purpose of incarceration. The real reasons for imprisonment are retribution and segregation. Criminals must be punished and separated from society.
Rehabilitation is what they are 'said' to be offering instead of short prison services. So instead of isolating them your making them work near vulnerable people usually.
Who has said this?
There may have been a time before prisons became commercial when rehabilitation was the desired outcome. The minute prisoners provided profits to a corporation, recidivism became more important than rehabilitation.
I'm going to assume you don't know this piece of information. Corporate prisons can sue States for lack of profits if they don't convict enough people. It's one of the little known things about the screwed up system.
The first line of the article:
I think you're thinking of the US system, the UK system seems to be barely holding together and the few friends I have in the UK that have ties to prison officers there tell me the private prisons are MUCH worse with gangs essentially owning the prison.
I like to think it's a quarantine. If someone is too dangerous to roam free, we isolate them until they are no longer dangerous.
in theory, anyway.
If the criminal cannot be rehabilitated then why not do the humane thing and just kill him?