A half-dozen people in Missouri who were reported missing in August are believed to have been lured into a cult led by a convicted child molester, police said.
A half-dozen people in Missouri who were reported missing in August are believed to have been lured into a cult led by a convicted child molester, police said.
How exactly do you stop them from harassing people if you give them a cell phone?
A focus on rehabilitation by undoing the brainwashing of a criminal mindset? You essentially have to re-parent them, since somebody screwed it up initially. A heavy focus on reducing recidivism wouldn’t completely prevent problems or anything, but you can teach people the benefits of cooperative behavior and actually just … being cool.
Do you really think this guy has been rehabilitated enough to be allowed a cell phone?
It’s not a question of if he is. It’s a question of how to get from where we are, to a place where we are rehabilitating instead of threatening and punishing.
No system is perfect, but we can’t over-marginalize criminals just to keep ourselves safe from them, or we risk just entrenching their beliefs.
We also can’t allow criminals to continue committing crimes from prison.