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Quote by: tinybear Impisonment is not rehabilitative in nature. Nobody claims that it is. |
Just where do you get your information from? The voice of ignorance perhaps?
Look up any reliable source on penology and you will most likely find reference to what is commonly called the "3 R's of incarceration", viz - Retribution, Rehabilitation, and Restitution.
At the risk of repeating myself, what exactly is the point of spending vast amounts of taxpayers money in incarcerating people if we do not deliver effective rehabilitation and reintegration programs at the same time?
As regards your question concerning what do we do with the "brutal, hardened criminal"? I will ask a different question first... how did such a person get created in the first place? The short answer is through the process of socialisation, and most likely through previous incarceration. Check the figures on just how many prisoners have previously graduated from juvenile detention centres and you will notice the cyclic nature of incarceration.
Brutal, hardened criminals, as you call them, are not born, we as a society create them. So the answer to what is to be done about them is rather simple, stop using brutal methods to punish. All over the world we have child and animal protection laws in place because we realised long ago that corporal punishment does not work with children and violent handling of animanls will simply produce violent animals. When will we realise the same thing as regards adults who offend against our laws.