Prisons are generally not rehabilitative as most have been designed around a criminal justice system oriented towards punishment and retribution. Most prisons are breeding grounds for increased criminality and fail to connect inmates with resources to improve their condition in life and choose a life absent of criminal behavior. Some prison systems have begun to implement more rehabilitative practices, but these changes have been hampered by a general public sense of entitlement to retribution and opposition to helping people who have wronged others. Overall, the majority still fails to see that most criminals are a product of social failures and crime itself a product of poverty and lack of opportunity.

Prison is a punishment at best and a way for regular people to segregate themselves from criminals, at worst. Prison will not rehabilitate you. Prison might make you institutionalized. Prison might allow for some criminal networking so you can be a more successful criminal when you get out. Prison might kill you or scar you physically and mentally for the rest of your life. But prison will not rehabilitate you.

Nope. Considering that there are more bad things you learn in prison, i mean from other people in prison. It's not rehabilitory.. but it is more or less like a punishment for the people who are wronged.

Jail is just used to scare criminals out of crime, but honestly it does more harm than good to the inmates

It appears to be more of a way to give appease to victims while getting the offender out of the general public.

Jails are necessary but not rehabilitory in the majority of cases in my opinion. People who are just thrown in there for marijuana is a complete waste of tax payers money / a joke! There is the odd person I have heard say I never want to go back there again but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to stop doing what they did to get there in the first place.

/ David