1. The Failing Prison System
He adds that penologists have studied murder and say it is "almost always a once-in-a-lifetime act.... Rideau states that prisons insufficiently deters criminals and actually induces prisoners to cause more crime in the future, rather than preventing them, which is in fact true. ... If rehabilitation were enacted into the prison system, criminals could see the other side of the equation: the changes they can make to better themselves for the future, the knowledge to succeed in life, approaches on how to deal with their problems and to switch from old to new, better ways. ... Rideau's...
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