Rehabilitation: a convenient fiction --- a little white lie

Characterizing prisons, anywhere in the world as "correctional" facilities for
"rehabilitation" is one of those little white lies that lily-livered liberals tell one
another.  (I'm liberal, but not lily-livered) :)

Prisons are for locking people up and keeping they away from the rest of us.  They don't do
any appreciable level of "rehabilitation" --- and if we wish to claim that this is their
purpose then we should also give ourselves, all of us, as a society, failing grades for the
absolutely abysmal "success" rate that they exhibit.  They mostly keep convicted felons off
our streets, out of our homes and places of business and away from us, our family and our
friends.

The tragedies are:

 * Too many "crimes" have nothing to do with harming other people (drug use, etc)
 * The administration of "justice" is far too uneven ... heavily weighted towards more several
punishment for people of specific racial and economic backgrounds
 * The lack of effective "rehabilitation" and a number of other factors practically guarantee
that most criminals will cycle through a revolving door career of felony.
 * Some of the the worst harm --- atrocities which *should* be criminal --- are being
perpetrated "above" or "beyond" the reach of the law (yes, I'm talking about you, Mr.
President).

JimD