The Incarceration Of Rehabilitation Programs

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Prison is used as a means of separating the criminally charged from the outside population. Many prisons are focused on reintroducing the prison population back into the general population. Rehabilitating criminals has become a highly-debated topic throughout the U.S. With the majority of criminals being repeat offenders, correctional institutions have made rehabilitation a top priority. Recidivism, defined as the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend, has become a problem in the United States. One way to correct the recidivism problem, as well as other crime related problems, is rehabilitation. Criminal rehabilitation is meant to, in some way, correct criminal behavior. There are punishment types of rehabilitation as well…show more content…
There is also statistics in this source about the amount of money spent on incarceration. I could use this source to help show how important rehabilitation is. Because this source explains a certain type of rehabilitation, it would fit well into my research topic. Crime Solutions. Office of Justice Programs, N.d. Web. 25 March 2017. This web page lists government approved rehabilitation programs and practices, with a summary for each, their effectiveness rate, and provides a link to the specific program. This is going to be a helpful source for my paper because there is a variety of rehabilitation types that are ranked for effectiveness. ABC News. "Prison Gardens Grow New Lives for Inmates." ABC News. ABC News Network, 23 Oct. 2013. Web. 25 Mar. 2017. This article focuses on using gardening as rehabilitation. It has statements from prisoners on how gardening has affected them personally. The article correlates the gardening and the low recidivism rate of participating programs. Because this focuses on such a specific rehabilitation type, it provides a deeper insight on rehabilitation. Punishment vs Rehabilitation Gilligan, James. "Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works." The New York Times. The New York Times, 19 Dec. 2012. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. This source gives statistics on the recidivism rate of prisons and the difference between rehabilitation and punishment prison types. The author points out why punishment doesn’t work and uses
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