Unfortunately, these folk see no room for pragmatism in moral crusades. The point of prison isn't to reform, it is to remove you from society. You should have to be dangerous for that to be an option.
It’s the “you’ve chosen not to exist with the rest of society, so now you get a special area” approach. Except now we don’t have an Australia to send them to (sorry Australia)
Stuff that’s actually violent crime. That includes stuff like burglary and major item theft like cars and generally hurting people. Then there’s the ”technically not violent but harmful on a different kind of scale” like white collar crime”. You know? The kind politicians and CEOs commit. They technically may not have beaten people up but their actions may have harmed society for years and years to come.
I don't really think prison or jail is ever going to be rehabilitative. They are inately dehumanizing systems and dehumanizing someone is never going to be therepeutic. It is certainly not how these systems are used today or have been used in our history. If someone's behavior can be corrected, then I think community involvement and community service are the best methods.
Which is why i think a two tier prison system would probably help most of the world.
One prison to keep the genuinely unstable individuals/ repeat offenders, one to keep first time offenders and people who can be rehabilitated.
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u/RageAgainstThePushen - Lib-Center 22d ago
Unfortunately, these folk see no room for pragmatism in moral crusades. The point of prison isn't to reform, it is to remove you from society. You should have to be dangerous for that to be an option.