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This 3 page paper argues that rehabilitation is superior to incarceration in the United States. The prison system is explored. Both points of view are noted but only rehabilitation is supported with factual data and opinions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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and reasonable alternative to detention. An article in the Monthly Review to some extent explains why incarceration still exists anyway. It suggests that the massive incarceration paradigm, is really "an
issue in the money driven political system, where politicians vie to win the honor of appearing to be "toughest" on crime by building even more prisons and lengthening sentences even
for nonviolent offenses" ("Prisons" 1). Ideologically, rehabilitation is better that imprisonment because the outcome is a society of ex-convicts who are helped and able to contribute to society versus a
model where every mistake is punished and even small crimes are equated with imprisonment. An article in the Economist notes: "Conservative politicians have tried to change America in many ways.
None may have a bigger effect than chucking ever more people in the can" ("In the can" 26). Here, the idea that conservative politicians and citizens support tough laws is
noted. It is true that conservatives feel that in order to effect social control, provide proper retributive justice and simply to effect order in society, prison is the most viable
option. It separates criminals from the rest of society. While perhaps it does not do everything that rehabilitation can for the criminal, it is society that is benefitted and that
is really all that counts. While that position is popular among hard line conservatives, the problem is that they do not consider the ramifications of imprisonment. Conservatives who see prison
as a panacea do not discuss the problem of ex-cons and what they do to society. So politicians do see the negative results of imprisonment. Doyle explains that the
mainstay of "incarceration without rehabilitation" should change as most of the inmates will be released into the community (St. Gerard 12). Doyle suggests short-term incarceration for anyone violating release terms
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