Prioritizing Rehabilitation For Inmates: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The latest World Prison Population List, published in December 2021, reports that there may well be in excess of 11.5 million prisoners worldwide (1). With all these prisoners, I tend to see a need for rehabilitation that is ordered by courts. The only way we can prioritize rehabilitation is if it is forced rehabilitation because then we see that an offender is sentenced to rehabilitation and must do it, not just having the choice of doing it. Drug rehabilitation that is mandated by judges was the only type of forced rehabilitation available. Other types of rehabilitation were simply available in jails where any inmate could go. However, I found an issue; criminal justice systems from around the world had rehabilitation, but would never prioritize it by mandating it; it was simply just there for inmates to potentially go to. However, after going about to different prisons and different press conferences, I found that mandated rehabilitation for offenders besides drug-dependent inmates was in place in the majority of criminal justice systems around the world that have open records of their criminal justice system. <a href="https://medium.com/@BeniaminoGrassoPHD/prioritizing-rehabilitation-for-inmates-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-e6d4c4734ae6">Website</a>