Rates of recidivism make a mockery of any claim to be “correcting” people. Plain common sense should tell us that we will never defeat violence by throwing violent people together in a violent environment, especially in light of what has been called “the contagious nature of criminality.”251 Prisons are self-defeating because they foster the very behavior they purport to control. They generate the hatred and hostility they claim to correct. This is why, in the Bible, God’s solution is not to refine