Prisons | Private Prisons Provide More Incentive for Rehabilitation
About the author: Abigail McCarthy is a writer and frequent contributor to Commonweal magazine, an independent journal of opinion edited and managed by lay Catholics.
As the crime bill swung into its second round the summer of 1994, vacationers with whom I was sharing Cape Cod tended to grow nostalgic about the relatively crime-free times of their youth. I, too, thought fondly of the days when we put the key on the ledge over the front door—if we locked the door at all— and the only crimes that fretted our parents were kids swiping melons from nearby farmers’ fields...
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- Introduction
- Are Prisons Effective?
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How Should Prisons Treat Inmates?
- The Treatment of Inmates: An Overview
- Prisons Should Punish Inmates
- Prisons Should Rehabilitate Inmates
- Inmates Should Not Be Coddled
- Prisoners Should Not Have Access to Weight Training Facilities
- Weight Training Is a Valuable Rehabilitative Tool
- Violent Inmates Should Not Be Placed in Super-Max Prisons
- Should Prisons Be Privatized?
- Should Prisons Use Inmate Labor?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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