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How reformist efforts get absorbed by punitive systems

I'm a drug court judge and I believe in treatment over punishment but the prosecutors keep pushing for jail time and I feel like I'm just managing misery.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic interventions are being co-opted by carceral logic rather than transforming it.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Criminal justice systems globally?”

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