Re: Land of the free
Welcome to the US where prison is not for rehabilitation but for punishment
Same in the UK, judging by reoffending rates. But even in Sweden, which is probably the most liberal, reform minded country in the world, with the justice system focused on reforming prisoners, reoffending rates are still around 40%.
Some people are just inherently criminal, and when you release them from prison, they are going to go and commit another crime. Curiously, there's no obvious link between low crime rates and the penal system being reformist or punitive, or even policing levels. Probably the three lowest crime countries in the world are Singapore, Switzerland. and Bharain, which have a spread from the nasty punitive police state of Bahrain, through to liberal, lightly policed Switzerland.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
