- Cooperation. The only thing I've ever gotten back was defiance!
- Not once have you ever shown a sign of rehabilitation!
- Rehabilitation.
- Yes. Rehabilitation.
- I wonder if you know what the word means.
- Do you?
- Now don't be insulting.
- The unabridged Webster's International Dictionary says it comes from the Latin root habilis. The definition is: To invest again with dignity. Do you consider that part of your job, to give a man back the dignity he once had? Your only interest is in how he behaves. You told me that once a long time ago, and I'll never forget it. "You'll conform to our ideas of how you should behave." And you haven't retreated from that stand one inch in 35 years. You want your prisoners to dance out the gates like puppets on a string, with rubber-stamp values impressed by you, with your sense of conformity, your sense of behaviour, even your sense of morality. That's why you're a failure , Harvey. You and the whole science of penology. Because you rob prisoners of the most important thing in their lives - their individuality.On the outside they're lost, automatons, just going through the motions of living. But underneath there's a deep, deep hatred for what you did to them. First chance they get to attack society, they do it. The result? More than half come back to prison.
Now it's all here in my book.
And I suggest you read it and you read it thoroughly.
- We've all grown old in prison, and all along, I've only asked you to do one thing: cooperate. But the only response I got was provocation. You never once showed signs of reforming.
- Rehabilitation.
- Yes, reformed.
- I wonder if you know what this word means. do you know?
- Stop saying these insulting words.
- The unabridged version of Webster's International Dictionary says that the word comes from the Latin root Habilis, which is defined as: to restore a person's dignity. Have you considered that part of your job is to give a person the dignity he once had? Your only interest is how he behaves. You said it to me once a long time ago, and I never forget, "You should behave as we want." In 35 years, you haven't backed off an inch from your position. You want your prisoners to dance outside the door like marionettes, and it all follows your mandatory values, your requirements for obedience, your norms for behavior, and even your sense of morality. Harvey, that's why you failed, you and your entire science of prison management failed. Because you stole from prisoners the most important thing in their lives, their personality. After going out, they are lost, like robots, living their lives step by step. But inside, there is a deep, deep hatred for what you have imposed on them. When given the chance, they will take revenge on society. As a result, more than half of them went back to prison. Now it's all written into my book, and I suggest you read it, read it carefully and thoroughly.
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