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Seven Ways to Make Prisons Work

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What is to Be Done About Crime and Punishment?

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Prisons are often portrayed as inherently inhumane and criminogenic and the explanation proceeds along these lines: prisons’ inhumanity stems from the very nature of total institutions (Goffman 1961); it is not natural for humans to be caged, and enforcing conformity will inevitably lead to coercion (Zimbardo 2007) and use of the “hole,” if not physical brutality (Rothman 1980) and psychic manipulation (Foucault 1977). The omnipresent pains of imprisonment will result in adaptations in which inmates bind closer together to resist their subjugation, creating an oppositional culture that only deepens offenders’ commitment to crime (Sykes 1958). In this context, the noble goal of rehabilitation—of correcting prisoners—will be unreachable, as discretionary enforced therapy will become yet another futile tool in the effort to achieve inmate compliance (Martinson 1974; Rothman 1980). Except for the small number of truly predatory criminals for which incapacitation is the only option, imposing a prison sentence has no moral or practical justification. The fact that prisons drain the public treasury, especially when employed on a massive scale, is yet another compelling reason to avoid their use.

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