Hi, friend! Following my previous post, just as you suggested, the punishment was found to be ineffective in changing criminal behavior and many correctional programs started providing educational and skill-based training that are believed to assist offenders to get employment after imprisonment. I wonder if you could give me a practical example for me to better understand?

Yes, it is.

Wow. That’s impressive!

Maybe you can search for the correctional system administration in Ethiopia. Several reforms have been introduced into its correctional system administration following the promulgation of the 2007 Treatment of Federal Prisoners. Apart from changing the thinking about prisons as places where “criminals have to be punished” to “where incarcerated individuals need to be corrected,” the new regulation entitles incarcerated individuals to be provided with basic needs and access to both vocational and academic training. The new regulation also recognizes the need for inmates to get professional counseling services as well as be paid for the work they do in the correctional centers. A recent survey by the Regional Correctional Administration indicated that of the 6,649 returning citizens contacted, 4,927 (63%) were employed or self-employed while only 67 were rearrested for another offense.