5 Nov 2011
Quote: On Jailing Criminals
A variety of studies have shown this — jailing first-time nonviolent offenders is completely ineffective at deterring future crimes. It’s weird — it’s almost like prison puts you in a criminal mindset, as if spending all day and all night living with and talking to other criminals, completely immersed in their lifestyle and morals and way of thinking, makes you start to act like them.
–Lillian Marx