• Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m all for rehabilitation. But according to the University of Adelaide, almost half of prisoners released in 2018-19 returned to prison within two years. Not much rehabilitation going on there. Also, if we’re talking about rehabilitation, fixed lengths for prison sentences make no sense. A prisoner should then be released into society when they have been rehabilitated, not after a fixed amount of years.

    • OscarRobin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I agree, hence why I said Australia is like 25% still about rehab, were 75% like the US where it’s just punitive. If we actually moved towards proper rehab like some European states then we’d see improvement in outcomes.