When viewing the far greater treatment prisoner inmates get in the german prison system, it begins to raise many, many questions of our own. Honestly, my first question, though based on history was how does a country, specifically one we condemn continuously, has a better prison system than America? Though the bigger question is what single factor can we Americans learn to experience such a positive change? The main piece is that the German system doesn’t focus on retribution but rather on rehabilitation which is the biggest aspect that United states should focus on solely because it would raise the successfulness of the reentry rates within the American Society.
Along with changing the focus too rehabilitation would address many of the other factors that the German prison system enacts such as not caging these inmates as animals and giving them a living space that they can actually survive in, especially mentally. The quality of life increases and so may the desires to improve on the outside, there isn’t a single physical change within our system that would really change the issue of recidivism if there is no change to the core values. You can change the living standard but without the resources necessary they will only, most likely, continue their law breaking once they get out.
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