20 Prison should be for rehabilitation, not confinement

A moving and thought-provoking read. It’s like one of my favourite authors Dostoyevsky said: ‘The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.’

It is far too easy and tempting to punish the allegedly guilty with no regard to due process. What makes us humans, and what makes us civilised men, is our regard for the worst among us—and rehabilitation over blind punishment. And what we do to them, how we treat them, after the fact is just as important. Lose that and we lose our moral and civil high ground forever.