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Should prisions rehabilitate?

Lizard asked:


I visited a low security prison this week and questioned why all these women were just sitting around all day. Why aren’t the prison systems utilizing them for labor (for minimal pay) or rehabilitating them by giving them life skills and an education?

80% of prisoners who participated in a rehabilitation program don’t return to prison.

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2 Responses to “Should prisions rehabilitate?”

  1. SarahNay on April 28th, 2009 7:23 am

    I was under the impression that most non maximum security or security risk inmates had to work and/or learn a skill. They pretty much “run” the prison, from cooking the meals to cleaning. It may be from prison to prison. My sister, unfortunately, is not the best person in the world, she is a meth addict. She has done a lot of time, and always ended up working in the cafeteria or cleaning or doing the laundry, all of which she feels are “below her”.

  2. Beau R on May 1st, 2009 3:50 am

    First to rehabilitate actually means to return to the same or better than they were before. So if the person is a thief, and is rehabilitated, ten they become a better thief. The main problem however is that the prisons have so many inmates, and so few jobs. One prison I worked in tried to split the jobs between two inmates with each working four hours a day. It is also unfortunately that the recidivism rate in prisons runs about 90%. This means that one out of every ten inmates released will not return.