"The evidence shows that incarceration, the most common form of criminal punishment, does not deter criminality. Incarceration increases the likelihood that an offender will reoffend, it doesn’t decrease it. Jails don’t fix criminals. Jails make criminals. And so the justice system is self-perpetuating. It is in the business of creating criminals. That’s the evidence. The persistent story, however, is that the justice system protects people from criminals."
- From The Power of Story: On Truth, the Trickster, and New Fictions for a New Era, pg. 41
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