My Honest Inner Conflict with American Incarceration and the Theory of Crime and Punishment.

I do not believe that the cruelty of punitive justice is the best solution to rehabilitating behaviors. But I also believe some people need to be isolated from the public indefinitely

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There are a few websites I keep bookmarked on my laptop when I am in need of source materials for writing inspiration. One of which is sentencingproject.org, home of The Sentence Project whose organizational mission is to promote effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and cr…