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by tonmoy 1733 days ago
The motivation for prison for a significant portion of US population is punishment not rehabilitation
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Yeah, and then they look like Surprised Pikachu when someone gets out of prison not only with no education, but into a world where potential jobs will reject them because they've been convicted of a crime, and they have to resort to going back into crime to survive.
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public