The establishment of the Emerald City is just the practice of Tim's personal philosophy, which can be said to be an experimental project of Tim. He is to practice that no matter who can be transformed into a good person through education and transformation, he is to prove that human nature is inherently good.
So he led a group of psychologists, priests, nuns and others into the Emerald City and started a new prison model. Here, prisoners can walk around at will, visit the door at will, play cards and have fun, pray and work, smoke and cook, all of which are completely new models.
Tim tried to put all kinds of light criminals, such as Beecher, a lawyer who caused traffic accidents, together with some death row prisoners who trafficked, murdered, and raped. Emerald City originally wanted to use the small society of oz to allow prisoners to change themselves and let them Good people lead bad people and make bad people good. But we have witnessed the process of a good person being led astray by a bad person, and we have witnessed the truth that human nature is inherently evil. When Said was imprisoned in the prison, we witnessed the process of the emergence, development, outbreak and demise of the spiritual leader of this Muslim religion. For the sake of animal language, you can rape and reform; for drugs and money, you can kill and set fire in prison regardless of the law. All these sins have never changed.
Tim's team never gave up on these prisoners from beginning to end. He treated the prisoners as students and friends. He taught them lessons but got ridiculed and attacked by them. He gave them cigarettes and allowed their girlfriends to meet intimately in order to keep them as human beings. In exchange for human rights, it is also revenge for carrying drugs and other favors.
When the prison was violent at the end, Tim still stubbornly told the warden that he could settle these matters, and naively went in and became a hostage. Everything has been declared a failure. Human nature is inherently good and evil. We don’t need to discuss it. It’s just that as a sinner, his mind is difficult to change overnight through probation. There is no physical and mental punishment, and there is no deterrent to criminals. It is impossible to achieve the purpose of making it rehabilitated.
Although in the end, Tim and the pastor still prayed for the criminals who died in violent prisons, and saved the undead for the criminals who killed themselves. They were still exchanging the great love shown in practical actions for the redemption of the evil souls.
I believe that there will be prisoners' experience in OZ, which will change from bad to good, but after all, it is a minority.
This is why modern prisons are still sparing no effort to implement a classified detention system. So far, most of the prisons in our country are still unclassified. Just like OZ, there are countless good people who have become bad, and only a handful of bad people have become good. Emerald City has made a litmus test for the world prison. As a pioneer, it failed, but its valuable experience is to tell us that no matter what sin, if Pandora's Box is opened, it will not be able to turn back. To subdue crime, you can only use violence to control violence and influence it with your heart, which is pure nonsense.
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