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non-repeat offernders who don't go to white collar prison are fucked. a friend of mine was locked up for one year. it was a public nuisance thing. he was raped, he was beaten - very regularly - it took a year after he got out before he even began to function again. he basically hid in a room for the first six months after he got out and didn't talk to anyone.
someone who had a joint in the wrong place, wrong time can come out totally warped. my drummer knows two guys who went in minor offenders and came out full fledged gang members, much more criminal than they ever were before.
if you want people to actually rehabilitate, having them live in terror, or in a situation where they MUST join a gang, isn't the way to accomplish this.
give someone something to live for and they'll do a lot to keep it - take everything they live for away and what do they have to lose?
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