Kept Women Can’t Quit

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What are we going to do with criminals?

We have to punish people who violate the law so that the punishment may serve as a crime deterrent. But what happens to these people after they have been punished?

What are we going to do with our prisons? Are we going to maintain them as crime factories which manufacture criminals, or are we going to develop them in such a manner that we turn law violators into useful citizens?

More depends upon the answers to these questions than we realize.

After a law violator has been confined and released, what he does after his release depends to a large extent on what society has done to him while he has been incarcerated.

If society wants to use punishment as a means of “getting even” with the criminal, the criminal is pretty apt to want to get even with society after he is released.

There aren’t any easy answers, but under the guidance of James V. Bennett, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the Federal prisons are making enormous strides.

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