“What we know from the overwhelming evidence is that prison is likelier to produce more harmful outcomes”
A lot of Americans are suddenly wondering where all the radicalism on college campuses came from. Well, it begins with constant messages like this one.This past Wednesday, Harvard’s Kennedy School hosted Danielle Sered, a “restorative justice” advocate who wants to do away with the nation’s prisons.reports Sered told the Zoom discussion that her “end goal is the full abolition of the prison system.
Sered also contrasted the recidivism rate in prisons with that of Common Justice, her own organization. “What we know from the overwhelming evidence is that prison is likelier to produce more harmful outcomes,” she said. “It has recidivism rates, in some places, upwards of 80 percent.” “If Common Justice had an 80 percent failure rate, we would not all be together today,” she added. “I would not have been on your invitation list.” …
“Common Justice — since our inception — has had fewer than 7 percent of our participants terminated from the program for new crimes on our watch,” she said.It’s a sign of the times when the actors in tv commercials match the racial make up of our prisons.It’s all trade-offs — What does a society want to spend its finite resources?l on?
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