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"What is the purpose of prison?"
Media Source:
WFAE (NPR Charlotte, NC)Media URL:
https://www.wfae.org/crime-justice/2024-09-20/nc-parole-system-blocks-chance-prisoners-have-of-release-for-crimes-committed-as-teens-suit-saysDate:
2024/09/20Summary:
Brett Abrams has been in prison for forty years, rarely facing discipline and earning the trust of community members and an outside employer. Why does the North Carolina Parole Commission still hold him for a crime he committed when he was just a child? According to Lewis & Clark Professor Reiko Hillyer, the parole denials reflect a “dramatic shift” away from the earlier belief that people in prison could be rehabilitated and eventually return to society. “This shift in policy and rhetoric suggests a radically new view that people who’ve committed crimes are permanently dangerous, impossible to rehabilitate, and deserve the most possible suffering,” Hillyer said, even when psychological evaluations and other evidence indicate otherwise.
