What incentive is there for any criminal to work towards rehabilitation (the carrot) without the punishment of jail, probation, and other restrictions on personal freedom (the stick)?
According to Mary Campbell, the retired director-general of the corrections and criminal justice directorate in the Public Safety Department, the mandate of Canada’s prison system is to rehabilitate offenders.
Campbell was commenting on the recent move of serial killer Paul Bernardo from a maximum-security penitentiary to a medium-security prison. She said the criteria for transferring an inmate to another penitentiary "is not based on revenge."Who said jail was about revenge or torture? Nobody. For offenders of less serious crimes, rehabilitation is a righteous cause worthy of significant time and effort. Yet what incentive is there for any criminal to work towards rehabilitation without the punishment of jail, probation, and other restrictions on personal freedom ?
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