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Originally Posted by swinearefine
If a criminal goes to jail, is released while living in terrible conditions and without prospects of a career or opportunities, they have a good chance of doing the same thing and making more people into victims. You think I'm saying that we should have more sympathy for a criminal than a victim, but what I'm actually saying is that the criminal needs the most help - they are the one who has committed the crime and they are the one who is likely to do the same thing again when they are released.
After a quick search it appears Boston College funded the program in Norfolk, Bay State, and Framingham prisons.
EDIT: Here's a link if you're interested
It's not as much sympathy for the criminals, but preventing criminals from making even more people into victims.
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Which is precisely why prison should not be some easy jaunt for a few years, with access to many things that hard working non criminals, trying to keep an honest roof over their heads - can't afford. Sat tv, gyms, 3 square meals a day, never having to worry about it being a cold winter and not being able to turn the heating up high enough etc.
If it was a real deterrent: they wouldn't want to go back: they'd do everything in their power to avoid reoffending.
Thanks for the details - I'll have a little look - appreciated.