Having bern incarcerated, I doubt its value. My imprisonment deterred no one. I was not a danger to anyone other than myself. Imprisonment does make politicians look like big, tough protectors of the small, scared citizenry.
Those are my opinions. The Invention of Incarceration leaves me thinking the problem is worse by besting widely known.
Anyone following what I write under the Supervised Release label will recognize the accuracy of this paragraph:
If we’re talking about prisons as a tool for rehabilitation, you can have the best-designed prison, and it will be virtually meaningless if people released from prison face the types of challenges on the outside that they face now: the inability to receive various kinds of governmental assistance, prohibition from getting certain types of jobs (including jobs they were trained for while in prison), difficulty getting most jobs because of background checks and discrimination against people with criminal records, a slew of fees and fines they still need to pay, not to mention the lack of help finding a place to live and transitioning to the outside world. They have a very tight rope to walk to not return to prison.
What the article does not address is huge institutional investment that exists in maintaining a population fir incarceration.
sch 3/25/22
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