Yes. When you have someone who is detained for a long period of time without programming, without access to rehabilitation, when they're cut off from their community, when opportunities are closed to them, when they are not able to make choices about accepting responsibility because doing so would dramatically crush their future, once they are released, they are in a worse position to be rehabilitated and reintegrated. That's why we see in some cases that mandatory minimum sentences actually result in an increase in recidivism rates.
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