The Left has forgotten how to blame and punish, and too often the Right has forgotten how to forgive.

So prison-based programs should encourage wrongdoers to meet with their victims if the victims are willing, to listen to their stories, apologize, and seek their forgiveness. Having to apologize and make amends makes most wrongdoers uncomfortable, teaching them lessons that they must learn.

For instance, Texas has begun creating special substance-abuse cells, so that repeat drunk drivers can get treatment instead of being housed with murderers and rapists.

f we make punishments immediate and predictable, yet modest, even drug addicts respond to them.

primary blame for crime on criminals’ impulsively satisfying their immediate desires. They are short-sighted gamblers; who else would risk getting shot or arrested in order to steal $300 and a six-pack of beer from a convenience store?

Cotton is not a helpless victim just like his ancestors, and it demeans the free will of poor black men to suggest otherwise.

Police pay closer attention to these high-incarceration zones, increasing the chance that any given criminal within them will wind up arrested

With adult males missing from their neighborhoods, boys will be more likely to get involved in crime, since they lack proper supervision. The net result: “Incarceration begets more incarceration [in] a vicious cycle.”

Because blacks have the highest prison rate, this argument holds, incarceration constitutes an unjust and disproportionate burden on them.

When children avoid school for fear of getting shot by drug gangs, “you’ve just lost that generation.”

The black incarceration rate is overwhelmingly a function of black crime. Insisting otherwise only worsens black alienation and further defers a real solution to the black crime problem.

The dramatic rise in the prison and jail population over the last three decades—to 2.3 million people at the end of 2007 (see box)—has only amplified the racial accusations against the criminal-justice system.

After all, in 2006, blacks were 37.5 percent of all state and federal prisoners, though they’re under 13 percent of the national population.

hey can help people feel less alone, thus help avoid the isolation that could increase the risk for prolonged grief disorder

she "was totally losing it,"causing her a great deal of distress

"lost almost all of my motivation forschool." Unlike her anxiety/panic symptoms, which emerged rather quickly over afew weeks, her low motivation for academic activities had emerged gradually overthe past several months

cedes clearly recognized that the actual risk of chokingto death was quite low, which she said "makes me feel like I'm thoroughly weak andtotally ridiculous."

she might choke on a grape.

skip several classes and social engagements.

she worried thatshe was going to get hit by a bus or some other kind of moving vehic

hat she felt anxious and apprehensive most of the day

e fact that she was havingmuch more anxiety on a day-to-day basis than she wanted others to know

when she suddenly suffered acute. chest pains, shortness ofbreath, and dizziness. Her symptoms were so overpowering that she asked a storeemployee to find her a chair so she could sit

a sudden, overwhelming fear that she was going todie, accompanied by a racing heartbeat and the physical sensation that her heartwas going to explode

"three heart attacks, which were apparently not heart attacks but 'crazy attacks

He was frequently late towork and seemed unconcerned about the reprimands that he began receiving

he thought heoverheard a conversation in the next room. It was a heated argument in whichone voice kept repeating "He's a goddamned faggot, and we've got to kill him!"Two other voices seemed to be asking questions about what he had done andwere arguing against the use of such violence.

He frequently heard male voices discussing his sexualbehavior and arguing about what action should be taken to punish him.

He wasalso afraid that serious consequences would follow his confession. Bill be lievedthat the conspirators had agreed to kiJI him if he ever found out about the movie

Bill believed that the filmhad grossed over $50 million at the box office and that this money had been sentto the Irish Republican Army to buy arms and ammunition. He therefore heldhimself responsible for the deaths of dozens of people who had died as the resultof several recent bombings in Ireland.

intrusive and130repetitive thoughts

requently hesitated. Thetherapist noted that Bill occasionally blinked and shook his head as though hewas trying to clear his thoughts or return his concentration to the topic at hand

occasion-ally sa id things that made little sense

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