Rehabilitation In Prisons

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When considering if a man is truly rehabilitated or not, where do we begin? What should we look for in this man to aid us in unfolding the truth? First, we should start by identifying rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is being restored to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness. There are millions of inmates incarcerated in prisons across the US and in reality they do not all become rehabilitated before being released. However, Jonathan Wayne Nobles displayed, in several instances, that he had truly transformed into a new man by the radical positive change in his behavior, the attitudes and behaviors toward him by others, and finally, the empathy, love, and respect he began showing to the people

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