Preface

Abstract

If we select certain prisoners to bear the burden of heavier sentences... surely we have a moral obligation at least to allow those serving extended terms an opportunity to make some constructive use of the time we have demanded of them. And unless we intend to lock them away forever, our reasons for attempting to rehabilitate these prisoners are not only moral but eminently practical. (Norval Morris, The Future of Imprisonment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974).