• Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    Oh I have a follow up question that you may or may not know the answer to. On rereading, I noticed they used the term “habilitation”, not “rehabilitation”. Is there significance in this distinction?

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      1 year ago

      I think the idea behind habilitation is that people who’ve spent most of their lives in the prison system were never properly integrated into society in the first place- rehabilitation implies return to a prior level of fitness that wouldn’t apply here.

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        1 year ago

        Ah thanks! This is the kind of think I thought might have been implied by using that term.