More incarceration will not make us safer don stemen, department of criminal justice and criminology, loyola university chicago;. Verkkoour study indicates that open prisons may be of great importance in rehabilitation for life after prison. As inmates in norwegian prisons today have. Verkkohistories of prisons commonly dwell on the struggle of the prison administrators for institutional autonomy and funds but neglect questions about the purposes prisons. Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration can improve the social reintegration of inmates in some circumstances. Rehabilitation and european law. Over the course of the last few decades, the idea that punishment must serve the purpose of.