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"This is the only truly just reason for impeding anyone's freedoms. Rehabilitation is certainly a noble end"

Yes, that makes sense. Rehabilitation is something that you might as well attempt while detaining somebody dangerous, but detainment is obviously the priority.




Indeed. In the first phase of incarceration the priority is to remove threat from society, over time it shifts to rehabilitation.




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