[DavidWoof]

Are you considering penitence to be a subset of rehabilitation? There's a reason they're called penitentiaries, after all.

Also, this is a nit but deterrence is usually considered to be about both the incarcerated individual and other citizens. Deterrence against re-committing the crime is an important part of incarceration, and I don't think it reasonably fits under rehabilitation.

[dragonwriter]

> Are you considering penitence to be a subset of rehabilitation? There's a reason they're called penitentiaries, after all.

That reason is because “penance” is, in ecclesiastical law, the earthly penalty for sin, and a “penitentiary” is a place dedicated to the experience of those consequences.

The connection to “penitence” (“the action of feeling sorry and regret for having done something wrong”) is more distant. (Also, the desire to cause penitence is more directly retribution, though it can be viewed as instrumental to rehabilitation.)

[Kamq]

> Are you considering penitence to be a subset of rehabilitation?

Yes, I would consider it part of the rehabilitation process.

> Also, this is a nit but deterrence is usually considered to be about both the incarcerated individual and other citizens.

This is fair. I was trying to draw the point that it's about people outside the prison (which the convict who may later re-offend would be when they're facing the choice to re-offend). I think I phrased this poorly/wrongly. Thanks for pointing it out.