Quotes about Rehabilitation

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

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.

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

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

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.