What Is Rehabilitation? According to Tammy Duckworth, an American Politician and retired US army Lieutenant Colonel, “Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability- the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy- to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.” Rehabilitation is the action of restoring someone to health or through training and therapy, and is a key component of prisoners’ recovery journey. Prisoners need to work through their imprisonment, addiction, and illness in order to be rehabilitated. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world’s population, it houses about 22 percent of the world’s prisoners. According to the article, …show more content…
According to Business Insider “Why Norway’s prison system is so successful,” by Christina Sterbenz “When criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%... The majority of crimes reported to police there are theft-related incidents, and violent crime is mostly confined to areas with drug trafficking and gang problems. Based on that information, it's safe to assume Norway's criminal justice system is doing something right. Few citizens here go to prison, and those who do usually go only once. So how does Norway accomplish this feat? The country relies on a concept called "restorative justice," which aims to repair the harm caused by crime rather than punish people. This system focuses on rehabilitating prisoners.” This prison in Norway has a phenomenal rehabilitation center for their inmates, it is keeping them out of prison after they have left. According to “Rehabilitation- Correctional Programs In The United States,”It is estimated that the proportion of inmates participating in drug treatment programs rose from 4.4 percent to 32.7 percent.” This rose over 28 percent, and is a huge deal for prisons in the United States. While giving inmates their punishment, society is helping them get the help they need. “Correctional institutions frequently provide individual and group counseling aimed at having offenders forfeit their criminal way of life. Over the years, various treatment modalities have been tried. However, a method of increasing appeal—in large part due to growing empirical support for its effectiveness—is cognitive-behavioral treatment (Van Voorhis, Braswell, and Lester; see also Andrews and Bonta). Although they come in various forms, these programs target the criminal attitudes and ways of thinking that foster illegal behavior”(Rehabilitation- Correctional Programs In The United