Negative Effects Of Rehabilitation In Prisons

Introduction

The topic to be analyzed is rehabilitation in prisons. Up until about the eighteen-hundreds prisons believed in the rehabilitation ideal. After that the idea that sprung forward was strict and harsh punishment, and because people in poverty increased crime increased with it. People bought into the idea that prisons should be a living hell as a deterrence to keep people from committing crime. In some places they would put prisoners in solitary confinement for long periods of time to think on their crimes. Many were given a bible for reading. However, being in solitary confinement for lengthy sentences without any socialization, many went insane. A good example for this is The Stanford Prison Experiment. The tough on crime just doesn’t work. Rehabilitation is necessary in prisons because the cruel and harsh treatment becomes a drain on inmate’s mental health. They should be punished for their crime, but not in an inhumane manner. Prisons need rehabilitation because it is an important aspect, the programs help many inmates to get help with their addiction, and receive

(2014), informs us of the inverse probability of treatment weighting. It is a way to use a non-random selection. Peters et al. (2014), says “clearly, offenders are not nor should they be selected into treatment at random for most correctional programming, but the accurate assessment of treatment’s effects requires handling selection problems through experimental random assignment, matching, or quasi-random assignment via manipulation of data” (p.153). The dependent variable is the recidivism within two years of their release from prison. Based on the independent variable, the completion of treatment. Those who need it are placed in a treatment program that meets their needs. It is stated that those who engage in treatment and receive a higher quality treatment might be less likely than others to