I'm going to start looking for a part in the constitution that prohibits the government from offering rehabilitation to convicted criminals, unless you actually thought I was implying that rehabilitation be forced on criminals, in which case you would be right.
Government cannot force a person to change unless they are willing to change on their own.
My understanding is that once one is convicted in a court of law, they no longer have full constitutional rights. From my understanding, and you can point me to the part of the contitution that I'm unaware of, but the 8th amendment protects prisoners from cruel and unusual punishment, and the 5th and 14th provide due process and equal protection. Another right convicted prisoners have is the right of access to the parole process, except when given a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
I dont need to you did a good job in pointing them out. Bill of Rights was designed by the founding fathers to guarantee the American citizens that government is working for the people and will never, never control the people. This is why we have the second amendment.
This is why the Healthcare Law is a hot topic... (although another topic)
This implies a correctional committment to rehabilitation or else there would be no parole system. Where in the constitution is it against the law to provide rehabilitation to convicted criminals?
It's not against the law if a prisoner is willing to change but the law does protect the prisoner from government forcing rehabilitation. Therefore prison doesnt rehabilitate criminals, if it did then people would be 'forced' to stay in the prison system until they are actually rehabilitated no matter how long it takes.
Society assumes a prisoner is being rehabilitated because we like to think that the criminals has learned their lesson, "they paid for their debt to society." But we know most criminals didnt learn a damn thing since they are going back into the life of crime.
This is why I said the law was ment to deter crime.
If such a thing exists, I've never seen it, but I'm not claiming to know the constitution forwards and backwards.
I dont know the constitution forward or backwards... I'm only using common sense.