One way people justify the existence of prisons nowadays is by claiming their purpose is to rehabilitate people they consider to pose a danger to society. That is they can unlearn whatever caused them to commit crimes and change their behavior. I think re-education is a very similar concept applied to a more ideologically strict society.
One way people justify the existence of prisons nowadays is by claiming their purpose is to rehabilitate people they consider to pose a danger to society. That is they can unlearn whatever caused them to commit crimes and change their behavior. I think re-education is a very similar concept applied to a more ideologically strict society.
i hope the takeaway from that is that prisons are unjustifiable, and not that gulags, or other forms of supposed re-education, are justifiable.