You are committing the same fallacy that you are prescribing to others. If rehabilitation is taken seriously and provided the required resources, recidivism is a „statistical minority“.

As with many social issues, the US happens to be very bad at this currently, with recidivism rates double those of the UK, for example. UK prisons are notoriously bad by European standards and they have plenty of violent crime. But criminals are in the vast majority of cases not criminal by nature. Most people want to live a socially conforming life, given half a chance.

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elzbardico 8 hours ago | parent [-]

UK prisons are almost as bad as American or Brazilian prisons because UK is almost as unequal as the US or Brazil.

You can rehabilitate folks as much as you wish, most of them will leave and find no job in a society that cares more destroying jobs and disruption, so VCs can make another billion with another stupid SaaS exit than we care about have industry and a healthy lower middle class with social mobility.

	▲	tfourb 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What you are writing is demonstrably untrue and you would recognize that if you’d spend even a few minutes researching the actual facts. Rehabilitation works, if done according to established best practices.