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Originally posted by Hayashi:
We should also recognise that not all prisoners are alike. There are some who are genuinely remorseful for their crimes; there are others who are "hard core".
Hence a prison should serve the following objectives:
a. Rehabilitation & help the offender integrate into society.
b. For those who refuse to act within accepted norms of behaviour, to keep them out of society to prevent the innocent from being harmed.
c. A tough regime so that those on the borderline can be deterred from committing a crime.
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Mate [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] I could not agree more, but the question is why do prisons fail so badly at step 'A'
And why do prisoner review boards (insert your countries version) fail. Judges, being privy to the facts and if unhindered by the influence of politics, usually get the sentence correct only for some unelected, unaccountable asswipe to release a convict years early so undermining steps 'B' and 'C'