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Adept-Bobcat-5783 t1_j874xel wrote

You guys ever heard of scared straight. Punishment should be harsher and prison should be tough. Growing up I heard too many people saying they love prison. Look at lots of these videos of inmates enjoying themselves. Why work hard to support myself when I can just rob someone and if I get caught I get 2 hots and a cot. That’s the mentality. Go ahead and get mad but I have a good understanding of the street life mentality.

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kendallvarent t1_j87cjz0 wrote

Fascinatingly, it was later revealed that Scared Straight was a total failure.

Their methodology was totally flawed, "success" rates incorrectly calculated, and it turns out that participants underperformed wider society.

There was a whole section dedicated to this in the (also generally excellent) book "Black Box Thinking".

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Adept-Bobcat-5783 t1_j87l4hm wrote

I wasn’t talking about the show, I’ve never seen it. Just that fear is man’s greatest enemy.

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