In a typical prison, when it is time to get up and go to work or to breakfast in the morning, we ring the bell and we march them out.

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This type of work is extremely therapeutic for people who have suffered the trauma of prison, poverty or combat.

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Not only does prison, for the vast majority of those who endure it, not work, either as punishment or as rehabilitation, but there is no escaping the conclusion that it functions as a stimulant to crime, rather than its bromide.

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