What if traditional arrest, imprisonment, punishment, and shaming actually does NOTHING to reduce crime?
What if crime is actually also about environment, and as a result of brutal conditions you make the huge percentage of people incarcerated WORSE instead of better?
What if crime is actually also about environment, and as a result of brutal conditions you make the huge percentage of people incarcerated WORSE instead of better?
What if making it impossible for people returning from prison to get jobs or housing and loading them down with massive criminal justice debt makes them MORE not LESS likely to recidivate or commit new crimes?
What if manufacturing massive housing and job insecurity, stress, and debt after disconnecting people from family and friends is counterproductive?
What if addressing long ignored trauma, providing meaningful services, and giving people HOPE for a real future works better?
What if addressing long ignored trauma, providing meaningful services, and giving people HOPE for a real future works better?
Anyway, what is your argument for why incapacitation, shaming, prison, housing and employment insecurity, and criminal justice debt = success?
Here is my evidence that system does not work
Here is my evidence that system does not work
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