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Powerful and engaging column on such an important matter. For post people prison is not for life, and hence we need to think carefully about how to improve these systems to reduce recidivism and to prevent prisoners from becoming worse. Really challenging to think about people who get convicted for a long time given the crimes they committed. short sentences seem problematic, but so do other options. We have heard / read some things about Norway and other systems that appear to achieve much lower rates of reoffending. We wrote a first pass on some of this issues: https://curingcrime.substack.com/p/recidivism-trying-to-rehabilitate-prisoners-91fd4a7b5f5e

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