The average recidivism rate of prisoners in the U.S. is 43%, meaning that almost half of incarcerated individuals will return to prison. That’s not supposed to happen; they call it “corrections” for a reason. Unfortunately, the prison industrial complex is more conducive to punishment than improvement, and members of society sadly seem to encourage the former more than the latter.
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