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Violent criminals are usually - in my experience - REALLY messed up people. The effort would be wasted on most of them. My experience has been that either you are capable of brutality or you or not.
Some of them could be rehabilitated. But I personally think the vast majority - especially the repeat, violent offenders - cannot.
So, to sum up. My ideas are 100% solitary confinement, MUCH longer sentences for violent crimes and MUCH shorter ones for non-violent ones (throw a non-violent criminal into a prison and almost guaranteed he will come out a much harder criminal) and finally do not waste taxpayer money on rehabilitation of violent criminals - especially repeat offenders.
I agree with you on some aspects. I am 100% against Solitary Confinement -- it is an unimaginable torture used by USA on hundreds of thousands of people.
Norway has good Welfare system, thus people with psychological problems do get free help -- and very few end up in prison.
Most violent offenders were severely abused or have severe mental disorders.