Quotes about Rehabilitation

She did not question God's supernatural power, but how to go about convincing God of her sincerity? Faith wasn't like a muscle that could be enlarged through rehabilitation exercises.

Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

It's time for Christianity to rediscover the deeper biblical theme of restorative justice, which focuses on rehabilitation and reconciliation, not punishment.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.

At first the solution was to build more prisons and cram more people into them, but that soon became prohibitively expensive. (Here Ed flicks through a few more slides.) Not only that, it resulted in platoons of prison graduates with professional-grade criminal skills they were more than willing to exercise once they were back in the outside world.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.