Does imprisonment work?
“Does imprisonment work? Though most of us are reluctant to admit it, we mainly use prisons as storage containers, putting people there with the hope that, if nothing else, five years behind bars means five years during which they cant commit more crimes. Its called warehousing, and we do a lot of it. Adjusted for population growth, there are four times as many people in prison this year as there were in 1980. We pay lip service to the idea of rehabilitation, but we do little to make it happen. About 67 percent of the prisoners who are released are arrested again within three years. The result, to borrow a phrase from a Conservative British home secretary, has been an expensive way of making bad people worse.”
(Jim Lewis in the new York times magazine)
That is true.
However, I have been very surprised as I have watched hardcore criminals come out of prison completely reformed. It’s like they’re different people. So yes, imprisonment works sometimes.
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