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The purpose of prison is punishment. If rehabilitation occurs that is a plus.
"The report also sheds light on another perennial problem in the state prison system: The CDCR has no department-wide system to assess the effectiveness of educational and other rehabilitation programs and thus no data on whether specific programs in California can actually cut recidivism.
A September 2009 report by the state auditor made a similar point: while Corrections' budget for its academic and vocational programs totaled more than $208 million in fiscal year 2008-09, it confirmed that its system for accessing, processing, and tracking inmate educational data is extremely inadequate, and therefore it is unable to determine the success of its programs in reducing the chance that inmates will return to prison once they are released.
Actually, this is a make work project, for the workers, not the prisoners--but also to make society feel good about sending criminals to prison.
My guess is if you totally ended "rehabilitation" there would be no change in the recidivism rate.
Time for the punishment of the criminals to resume and the punishment of the taxpayer to end.
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"The report also sheds light on another perennial problem in the state prison system: The CDCR has no department-wide system to assess the effectiveness of educational and other rehabilitation programs and thus no data on whether specific programs in California can actually cut recidivism.
A September 2009 report by the state auditor made a similar point: while Corrections' budget for its academic and vocational programs totaled more than $208 million in fiscal year 2008-09, it confirmed that its system for accessing, processing, and tracking inmate educational data is extremely inadequate, and therefore it is unable to determine the success of its programs in reducing the chance that inmates will return to prison once they are released.
Actually, this is a make work project, for the workers, not the prisoners--but also to make society feel good about sending criminals to prison.
My guess is if you totally ended "rehabilitation" there would be no change in the recidivism rate.
Time for the punishment of the criminals to resume and the punishment of the taxpayer to end.
More...