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Just as a guess, I’d hazard that isolating them in a pool consisting of other lawbreakers, keeping them there for months or years on end, then releasing them with an official track record that makes subsequent legitimate employment difficult would not be a resounding success.
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Years ago, I participated in a volunteer program where we got to go into a maximum security prison and talk to the men who were incarcerated there.
One of the inmates called the corrections system “crime school.”
For what it’s worth.