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Originally Posted by kane
While I agree that it shouldn't be a club like atmosphere (and for the record most prisons are not. Some minimum security prisons have more activities in most you spend most of your time sitting in your cell) all I can say is this: If you look at countries that treat prisoners like animals, what do most of them have in common? They are third world shitholes that you wouldn't want to live in. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
If the goal is to rehabilitate people and hope they can reenter society in a positive way, you can't treat them like savages and then expect them to be good citizens.
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I am not saying "treating them like savages". I'm not saying "send them all out the yard and it's survival of the fittest". It costs $110k a year to house someone in prison, meanwhile we are spending $10k a year to educated my fifteen year old. There is something seriously wrong with that.
Sixty-five percent of prisoners end up back in prison, so clearly what we are doing isn't working. We need to make prison less of a vacation in order to rehabilitate them. We need to make it so that people will never want to go back.