{"id":1945004,"date":"2023-06-06T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-progressives-get-all-wrong-about-prison-rehabilitation\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:02:30","slug":"what-progressives-get-all-wrong-about-prison-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-progressives-get-all-wrong-about-prison-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Misconceptions of Prison Rehabilitation by Progressives."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-progressives-get-all-wrong-about-prison-rehabilitation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1945004&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>What&#8217;s Prison For? The Challenge Of Rehabilitation In America<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Journalist Bill Keller&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-progressives-get-all-wrong-about-prison-rehabilitation\/\" title=\"Misconceptions of Prison Rehabilitation by Progressives.\">recent book poses<\/a> the question, &#8220;What&#8217;s Prison For?&#8221; While the author doesn&#8217;t provide a direct answer, the book focuses heavily on rehabilitation, suggesting that prisoner reform should be the primary goal. However, achieving this goal seems nearly impossible for most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-leaders-slam-adam-schiff-urge-newsom-not-to-appoint-him-as-ca-attorney-general\/\" title=\"BLM Leaders Slam Adam Schiff, Urge Newsom Not To Appoint Him As CA Attorney General\">prison population<\/a>, even in Scandinavia, which is often held up as a model of progressive incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>While rehabilitation is a noble aspiration, it&#8217;s important to recognize that prisoners must be internally motivated to change. They must want to live a clean life and obey the law. Unfortunately, achieving this mindset is extremely difficult in prison, which is built around security and suspicion, hardly a therapeutic environment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The significance of this distinction is that, as Keller recognizes, prisoners do not truly reform until they are ready to change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some European countries have redesigned their prisons to reduce mistrust between guards and inmates, provide dorm-like facilities, and offer work and therapeutic interventions. However, it&#8217;s unlikely that the United States can replicate these facilities due to our much larger and more violent prison population. For example, Norway has only 2,900 prisoners, while New York State alone has 30,000 prisoners convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-against-l-a-county-das-policies-pushing-for-reduced-sentences-for-violent-criminals\/\" title=\"Judge rules against L.A. County DA\u2019s policies pushing for reduced sentences for violent criminals\">violent felonies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, our inmate populations, especially in large states, are dominated by racial and ethnic gangs, making it difficult to deliver rehabilitation programs. The Europeans do not have this problem. Additionally, the best metric for measuring the success of European prisons, recidivism rates, is not significantly better than in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We should not give up on these young men. We should give them the chance to turn their lives around. But we should have no illusions about the likelihood of success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While some prison interventions, such as cognitive behavioral programs, seem effective, most inmates are unprepared for school and must want to learn for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-to-cut-1-in-9-jobs-in-europe-in-electric-revamp\/\" title=\"Ford to Cut 1 in 9 Jobs in Europe in Electric Revamp\">voluntary programs<\/a> to be effective. Ultimately, achieving prisoner rehabilitation is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Bill Keller&#8217;s book &#8220;What&#8217;s Prison For?&#8221; focuses on rehabilitation, but never answers the titular question. The implication is that prisoner reform should be the main goal. While noble, it seems unrealistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":1945005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[28399,3891,11763,28398],"class_list":["post-1945004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-misconceptions","tag-prison","tag-progressives","tag-rehabilitation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}