Does the Prison System Work?
Why are so many going through it?

The definition of rehabilitation is as

Rehabilitation in the Criminal Justice System

With the rising costs associated with incarcerating offenders

Having worked with the Arizona Department of corrections, I can tell you first hand how criminals are

Rehabilitation does NOT work in the US Criminal Justice System. In particular, rehabilitation is not

Do prisons actually rehabilitate criminals? The answer to that question is both yes and no. Being an

A Waste Of Time

Everyone wants to hear that people who go to prison are paying for their crimes, and

Correctional Facilities are not designed today to rehabilitate inmates. Prisons are warehouses of human

The United States has a prison population of over two million persons (Prison Statistics). This means

Rehabilitation is not really the business of the prison system in the US. Don't misunderstand me I know

In a word, no!
Prison officials do not rehabilitate criminals because they cannot. Criminals cause crime!

Although prisons in US are under the moniker "Department of Corrections", the institutions themselves

Call it reform or rehabilitation but whatever term you use, I didn't see it happening in our U.S. prisons.

Do U.S. prisons really rehabilitate criminals?

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Ever since Man segregated the first criminals away from the rest of society, the question 'Does prison

Example
The gavel lifts and slams, papers are shuffled, signed, placed in a folder, and a bailiff instructs