I believe our legal system a little misguided. We should not be ripping the person from doing productive things in society and placing them in a room where they do little more than watch TV.
If a job is a good thing, and if you want to encourage the good things, don't take work away from the prisoner.
It is said, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We send more of our citizens off to jail than any other nation. Perhaps instead of sending so many to jail, we should send them off to work. And, sometimes that work will come as part of incarceration, and sometimes without, thus nudging down how many we hold in prison.
There is a share of our prisoners who arrive without having jobs. Their unemployment perhaps even contributes to their turning to crime. Work is part of the solution, and we should be using it more often as a tool to help the criminal.
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