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.

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    10 months ago

    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.

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        10 months ago

        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.