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- We've given up on rehabilitation, education, and services for the imprisoned because providing assistance to the incarcerated is apparently too kind and compassionate.†
p. 15.8 *rehabilitation = to restore someone to a state of good condition
- Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated.†
p. 16.8
- But there is no minimum age for kidnapping, so the Orange County judge sentenced Antonio to imprisonment until death, asserting that he was a dangerous gang member who could never change or be rehabilitated, despite his difficult background and the absence of any significant criminal history.†
p. 156.5rehabilitated = restored to good condition
- I had studied Sweden's progressive approach to the rehabilitation of criminal offenders as a graduate student and had long marveled at how focused on recovery their system appeared.†
p. 251.1rehabilitation = to restore someone to a state of good condition
- Their punishments were humane, and their policymakers took rehabilitation of criminal offenders very seriously, which made me excited about the award and the trip.†
p. 251.1
- We've become so fearful and vengeful that we've thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weakânot because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken.†
p. 290.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(rehabilitate) to restore someone (or more rarely, something) to a state of good condition -- such as recovery from addiction, illness, prison, or poor reputationRehab is sometimes used as an abbreviation for rehabilitation or a rehabilitation facility such as might be used to help someone recover from a drug addiction.
Although rehabilitate can be used generally, it is typically replaced with refurbish when talking about buildings or machines, and with recuperate when talking about recovery from an illness. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)