Why Making Prisoners "Pay" Won't Work
Johannes Wheeldon, Ph.D
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Posted 07.11.2012
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Time for prisoners to start paying their own way, says the Minister for Public Safety, Vic Toews. This will invariably lead to the reduction of community corrections programs that have been shown to best promote successful rehabilitation and reintegration. What if instead of trying to break the cycle of poverty-to-prison-to-poverty, we actively embraced it?
