U.S. prisoners the least rehabilitated in the world
[2023-11-08 17:46:18]
It is often said that the United States is the country with the highest rates of the prescriptions in the world. truly? Yes. World Prison System online database According to statistics from sources such as World Prison Bulletin, there are more than two million prisoners in the US - nearly 500,000 more than China.
In addition to trapping people at an unprecedented rate, the United States has also claimed the highest recidivism rate in words - an amazing 76%. Compared to Norway, Norway has the lowest percentage of only 20%.
There is one interesting thing. In the country with the highest percentage of violent crime, the United States has not even reached the top. These places were occupied by Honduras, Venezuela, Belize and Guatemala. Without becoming the most violent country on the planet, the US still imprisoned most citizens, and then saw most prisoners recidivated.
There are many reasons why the United States exceeds the world in terms of imprisonment and non-recovery rates, but the broken prison system has a prison system for profit for reducing prisoners' access to education and appropriate nutrition, etc. It is widely believed to be caused by many factors. To the extent that we can not pay the violent killings from the poor, we unfairly aim at various non-white socially disadvantaged citizens lacking rehabilitation services, as well as various prisoners who serve various criminals A channel from school to jail. Lack of tools that can be offered by paying attention to rehabilitation and reducing opportunities for successful employment and reintegration
As proven in the famous devastating Stanford Prison Experiments, handling prisoners is an important factor in the possibility of successful rehabilitation. People need to look around the world to understand how the prisoners are arranged and receive nutrition and education to understand the potential cracks in the system. For example,
o Recently, for-profit food services cut budgets and lead to prisoners of malnutrition
By comparison, if a prisoner is treated humanely, has some privacy, is doing ideological, physical and spiritual activities, you will see a lower holding rate and a lower recidivism rate . There, you can see crowded unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, inhuman treatment, and services with words that do only the rehabilitation program. As a result, the retention rate and the recidivism rate will increase.
Perhaps, Paolo Pellegrin, a photojournalist, is recording the situation of people around the world, including prison life, he said: "Prisons reflect the society they live in"
Christopher Zoukis is the author of "Federal Prison Handbook: Guidelines for Federal Prison Administrative Decision", "Criminal College: Case of Higher Education in American Prison" (McFarland & Co., 2014) and "Prison Law Press, 2016" . He can be found online at ChristopherZoukis.com and PrisonerResource.com.
Before the 1970's, rehabilitation was the main purpose in American prisons. A prisoner is considered to be a productive and legitimate citizen if he can access tools such as education, vocational certificate, contact and support programs to promote the success of reintegration into society . By the 1970's, however, criminal psychologists were confident that rehabilitation did not go well, began pushing another approach based on the research of sociologist Robert Martinson who published a later report and made a conclusion. It was. Yes, when it comes to deter criminals, "there is no effect." An irritated sociologist pushed politicians responsibilities to deal with criminals. Politicians took advantage of the "strong crime" position the people supported in the campaign. By 1990, retaliation completely took over rehabilitation and became a mass prison sentence.
Unfortunately, the lack of attention to the rehabilitation of prisoners has brought about repeat offenses in the US prison system. In the US prison system there is a lack of the prisoner rehabilitati