Why so many Americans are in Prison.

[Kestrel]

How does penalising cost less than rehabilitation?

There are costs associated with any rehabilitation program. It costs money to hire teachers, buy equipement, provide space for training and so on. Cutting the programs seems like an easy way to save money.

But it's a false savings and not just from lower recidivism rates. Rehabilitation and training programs keep prisoners busy and help them learn to work with others. You end up with fewer fights and other problems between the inmates.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I'd be more interested to find out why Japan has so little people in prison? ....

No brainer, Japanese are little people.

 

[ConspiRaider]

Most Americans in prison are inside because of their shoddy workmanship on the wall-to-wall carpeting of New England. Like where it's difficult to fit the carpeting around tree roots? They've tried to crayon in the pattern or spray-paint it - or stand in front of it and try to obscure and distract the Inspectors with impromptu Shakespeare In The Park performances. Desperately intolerable behavior. Many are dumped in cells with nothing more than a carpet sample for a bed and a tack hammer for a pillow. Which I think is coddling them.

 

[L.Y.S.]

No brainer, Japanese are little people.

Yeah I have grammar issues but I meant it in a quantitative way and not in a descriptive way. I have to work on my writing skills a bit, bayer with me .

 

[L.Y.S.]

Based on what you said Bikewer. Why has rehabilitation fallen out of favor in the United States? Is it a reflection of the current political climate? P.S. I heard an older woman in her 60's talking today while I was out at the story, and I guy in Chicago had committed at murder. I was being polite and maintaining a conversation with her. The first thing she said when she saw this young man was, "he's a convicted felon and he's out on the street?" That statement scared me. It's almost as if you commit one petty crime, society wants to lock your ass up and throw you away with the key. Has our society become more subconsciously intolerant?

 

[I Ratant]

Maybe not intolerant, but felons have a tough time finding work.
Which leads to unlawful practices to stay alive.