I share your general concerns about criminal justice, but I’m old enough to remember when prison was ostensibly at least in part about rehabilitation, and there were many education and skills programs in prison. I’m curious what made the US turn against such programs and if there are studies about the effectiveness, not that that should be an excuse for the turn toward cruelty imo, which is what I’ve seen since the 80s.
In the Regan era, Sherri, mental health facilities were shut down and their patients released into the community. Today, I would wager, a majority of prison inmates are in fact mentally ill and therefore ought to be elsewhere. Not in the community, though. There they would only add to the ranks of the homeless, who mostly conform to a similar diagnosis.
OK, how about 22.5 years in prison plus a payment of $27,000,000.00 to the family, paid earlier this year by the city of Minneapolis. Will that be enough?
I share your general concerns about criminal justice, but I’m old enough to remember when prison was ostensibly at least in part about rehabilitation, and there were many education and skills programs in prison. I’m curious what made the US turn against such programs and if there are studies about the effectiveness, not that that should be an excuse for the turn toward cruelty imo, which is what I’ve seen since the 80s.
In the Regan era, Sherri, mental health facilities were shut down and their patients released into the community. Today, I would wager, a majority of prison inmates are in fact mentally ill and therefore ought to be elsewhere. Not in the community, though. There they would only add to the ranks of the homeless, who mostly conform to a similar diagnosis.
Is 22.5 years in prison not enough?
OK, how about 22.5 years in prison plus a payment of $27,000,000.00 to the family, paid earlier this year by the city of Minneapolis. Will that be enough?