In our opinion: Ending prison abuses

Deseret News editorial

Published: Tuesday, June 5 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

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The nation needs to take prison crimes, and the need for strong rehabilitative efforts, more seriously. The new standards are at least a step toward that.

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Esquire

Springville, UT

More comprehensive penal reform is needed. In the first place, we send too many people to prison rather than having effective alternatives. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, by far - it's not even close. Are we such a bad More..

8:23 a.m. June 5, 2012
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Midvaliean

MIDVALE, UT

When those who come out of prison are traumatized the chances that person is "fixed" from their criminal behavior would be reduced. According to the article some Quarter Million people are annually raped in prison. Not only would this More..

7:02 a.m. June 5, 2012
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WestGranger

West Valley City, Utah

We cannot discard human beings and their humanity just because they are in jail or prison.
We need a universal condemnation followed up by decisive efforts to stop abuse in prison.

7:22 a.m. June 5, 2012
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